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HBV vs DV
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- Psychological Criminology
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- University Of East London (UEL)
essay on honour based violence vs domestic violence. similarities/differences and opinions on both arguments
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Honour Based Violence vs Domestic ViolenceOne of my primary objectives I wanted to attain through this dissertation was to show the
delineation between both domestic violence and honour based violence as the field for
honour killings is so scurried and always categorised into the same grouping of DV. It is
highly important to educate the public and correct lazy and ignorant views on what is
honour killing and why it transpires within many families from various backgrounds,
universally. Though, in this section I will moreover be exploring the similarities and touch on
any overlaps where domesticated violence can be seen as duplicated with honour based as
well.
“Men were legally allowed to rape their wives until 1991, while violence against women
wasn’t officially recognised as a violation of their human rights until 1993” (Stylist,
2018). Men had understood that they had complete ownership of women. Women were
seen to be meek, timid and compliant towards men and were perceived to be inferior to
men.
In 1918, the Representation of the People Act came in to place, which resulted in
women allowing to vote. Their voice was accessed and heard to many virtues, including
owning their own property, becoming the lawyer or doctor they wanted to be,
conversely, they were still at the hands of abuse.
“An Act to amend the law relating to matrimonial injunction; to provide the police with
powers of arrest for the breach of injunction in cases of domestic violence; to amend
section 1(2) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967; to make provision for varying rights of
occupation where both spouses have the same rights in the matrimonial home; and for
purposes connected therewith” (Legislation.gov.uk, n.d.). Until the matrimonial act of 1967
and the domestic violence act of 1976 was put in action for the matter to become
prohibited and criminal.
The figures from the crime survey of England and Wales from 2018 shows us a huge scale of
abuse occurring. “In the year ending March 2018, an estimated 2.0 million adults aged 16 to
59 years experienced domestic abuse in the last year (1.3 million women, 695,000 men)”
(Ons.gov.uk, 2018). Domestic violence is the abuse that happens in domesticated
situations in relation with a spouse or a partner, which goes on to cause great physical or
mental abuse. “Domestic abuse is any type of controlling, bullying, threatening or violent
behaviour between people in a relationship. But it isn’t just physical violence – domestic
abuse includes emotional, physical, sexual, financial or psychological abuse” (NSPCC, 2019).
This goes to display how prevalent and still widespread DV is and how it is still undergoing.
, Results of DV and HBV:
The separation between the two adjacent topics is why the abuse transpires. As we already
know the complications of the cultural component and notion of honour separates from
domestic violence, as there is no deep instilled definition of ‘shame’ involved.
“To censor the term would put at risk the significant progress that has been made, including
by the recent inspection into policing of “honour” based violence by Her Majesty’s
Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)” (IKWRO, 2017). Although honour killings can easily be
categorised under violence against women and DV, the classification of the crime can be
scurried in a matter to where there is no clear-cut knowledge on the matter that is a
worldwide inconveniency.
Similarities and Differences between DV AND HBV:
The conception of ‘honour’ is held at a pivotal state of mind for families who hold honour
and shame as their main theories of framework. Brining dishonour to prestigious families
where the community look up to can bring debauched consequences to the person
unwillingly of their realisation. “The parents of the 16-year-old confessed to police in Kotli,
that they attacked their daughter after she had spoken to the boy outside their house”
(RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, 2012). A simple action of talking to someone of the
opposite gender can have the victim crucified.
In contrary, in regard to domestic violence, the abuse happens irregularly without any
meaning behind the abuse other than to have coercive control and domain over their
partner. There is no honour implicated or disgracing the reputation of a family with
domesticated abuse. HBV in comparison entails that the family honour is at a deeper
complexity with severe consequences. “To compromise a family’s ‘honour’ is to bring
dishonour and shame and this can have severe consequences” (Karmanirvana.org.uk, 2018).
The more shocking an act is considered to a family; the severity of the punishment too goes
up the scale. The magnitudes of varied punishments result from a forced marriage, house
arrest without anything to eat and drink to bounty hunters kidnapping the victims, female
genital mutilation and with the most despicable punishment that is death.
In DV situations, the abuse can happen at any time and can also be a lifelong abuse.
Correspondingly at any given time the abuser may snap and kill their partner. HBV has
always been calculated and a premediated crime that the family set out to commit. “It's a
bit like becoming addicted to a drug. A psychologically abusive relationship is a rollercoaster,
with punishment and then intermittent reinforcement of kindness when you “behave” (The
Independent, 2017). The abuse can take its toll and go from hot to cold, which results in
confusing the victims. HBV is constant emotional abuse, thus there is no sudden or kind
‘reinforcements’ involved.
In example, a previous HBV victim can still be found years later he or she had ‘shamed’ their
family and be exposed many years later and then expelled to death. The death for HBV can
be continuing whereas with DV, the abuse will casually happen to where a death will follow
erratically “The man at the centre of a campaign to expose one of Pakistan's most notorious
“’honour killings’ cases has been shot dead nearly seven years after he brought it to national
attention” (BBC News, 2019).
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