TY  - JOUR
AB  - Honor killing is a serious social problem in some countries that is yet to be adequately explained and addressed. We start with an overview of the conceptualization of this phenomenon and review its global prevalence. We argue that honor killing cannot be fully explained by focusing only on religion and sexism. We present a feminist Durkheimian analysis of honor killing as a form of informal social control and argue that honor killing represents a ‘dark side of modernity’ in which the systematic marginalization and stigmatization of minorities and social groups have led them to rely more on traditional honor codes as a kind of informal social control, exacerbating honor crimes. We discuss how a more effective approach to combat honor killing requires not only addressing the issues of sexism and religious fundamentalism, but also the systematic exclusion and stigmatization of local groups and minorities.
DA  - 2021
DO  - 10.1177/0539018421994777
KW  - honor killing
KW  - informal social control
KW  - marginalization
KW  - modernity
KW  - stigmatization of minorities
LA  - eng
IS  - 1
M2  - 86
PY  - 2021
SN  - 0539-0184
SP  - 86-106
T2  - Social Science Information
TI  - Honor killing as a dark side of modernity: Prevalence, common discourses, and a critical view
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29516397
Y2  - 2024-11-22T09:34:10
ER  -