Annotated Bibliography On Honor Killings

Honor Killings and whom they affect: An Annotated Bibliography My research paper will be based on Recep Dogan’s article about honor killings in Turkey and who the victims and perpetrators are and what the beliefs are that surround the subject of honor killings. Even though there is increasing awareness of honor killings, there is limited information on the characteristics of the victims, the profile of perpetrators, or the variations of the committed crimes. This article will argue whom the victims, perpetrators, and crimes are by conducting 39 interviews with male prisoners and 5 interviews with female prisoners in Turkish prisons who have been found guilty of murder committed in the name of honor. Little is known about how and why an honor …show more content…
The article is mainly concerned with male offenders and female victims. The published data shows the victims ages to be from age 3 to age 60. Dogan says in the article, “…a man’s honor is dependent on a woman keeping her virginity before marriage and her fidelity after marriage, so she can guarantee that a child who will be born in the marriage is from the seed of the husband who was approved and chosen by the woman’s family” (Dogan 395). There are many reasons as to why a woman might be killed in the name of “honor”. One reason could be that she had a pregnancy out of wedlock or that she is having an affair. A woman could also be killed due to the mere suspicion that she is having pre martial sex. This article also goes into depth on the profiles of the perpetrators. In cases studies they found that the most common perpetrators of honor killings were the husbands with 36% (13 cases). Fathers were responsible for 14% (5 cases); elder brothers that 14% (5 cases); sons with 11% (4 cases); younger brothers with 8% (3 cases); parental cousins with 6% (2 cases) and brothers-in-laws with 3% (1 cases) (Dogan 398). A man is chosen by the family council to commit the murder of the woman who is believed to have dishonored the family. In the interviews they conducted, data shows the most used method in honor killings was shooting. There were also nine cases of stabbing, two cases of strangling, and one cases of a combination of shooting and stabbing. However, there have also been a lot of cases where the defendant denies responsibility for the murder and says that it was an accident or a

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