Document Type : Academicm and Research

Authors

• Mohammad Bagher Moghaddasi ¹
• Mehrangiz Roustaie ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Law, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bojnord .

² Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Malayer University.

Abstract

Honor killings are referred to as murders that occur within the family relationships. In most cases, the victims of these murders are women, and the perpetrators are usually men who claim to defend honor and commit the murder with the support of their families. The belief of the perpetrators that committing honor killings is an appropriate response to the mistake of the victims has led them to not feel remorse and carry out the murder in a brutal manner without resorting to concealment. The relationship between the perpetrator and the victim, the motivation, and the method of committing these murders have caused them to receive more media representation compared to other crimes. Therefore, in the past two decades, especially with the development of mass communication tools and social networks, it has attracted the attention of the public and policymakers. Comparative studies show that various measures have been taken in criminal justice systems to reduce the incidence of these murders: while in Western systems such as the UK, the US, and Germany, the focus is on reducing the scope of cultural defense acceptance, Islamic systems like Pakistan and Jordan emphasize removing facilitative laws and intensifying punishments. In Iran, in the absence of specific measures to combat such murders, which arise from not recognizing them as a separate category of general murder cases, existing laws can be examined in their prescriptive and reactive roles in the occurrence of these murders. This article, using a descriptive-analytical method, seeks to examine the approach of Western, Islamic, and Iran criminal justice systems to honor killings by looking at the criminological and legal aspects of honor killings and their characteristics.

Keywords

• Forced Marriage
• Domestic Violence
• Victimized Women
• Honor Killings
• Western and Islamic Criminal Systems

Main Subjects

• Legal (Comparative Islamic and Western Law)