Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to present a psychologically oriented, motivational model of honour-based violence (HBV) perpetration. It briefly considers existing theories of HBV and identifies some of their shortcomings, especially their failure to account for some of the empirical evidence concerning HBV perpetration, including violence against men. It then proposes an alternative theoretical framework (the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB); Ajzen, 1991, 2001, 2011) that can be applied to explain individual motivation to commit an act to HBV. It argues that that the TPB model accounts more readily than gender-exclusive or culturally based explanations for the perpetration of violence justified by claims of honour.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Honour' Killing and Violence: Theory, Policy and Practice |
| Editors | Aisha K. Gill, Carolyn Strange, Karl Roberts |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Palgrave |
| Pages | 69-88 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137289544 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |