CR6000 Project Proposal Form 1. The Applicant Name: Rezwana Ahmed Student Number: U1512267 Course: Criminology and Criminal Justice Address: 11 salter street E14 8nw E-mail: Rezwana_97@hotmail.co.uk Telephone Number: 07534740877 2. The Programme of Research Working Title: The act of killing under the influence of honour based violence within the South Asian community Potential Supervisor: Ali Raza Javaid (optional) Aaron Winter Aims and Objectives of the project (maximum of 250 words): Honour based violence is the act of committing criminal acts in the justification of a person's community or family. Each year a large figure of the population in the UK are murdered at the hand of 'honour'. 'The number of cases of "honour" based violence recorded by the police increased from 3335 in 2014 to 5595 in 2015, meaning a spike of 68% in cases in the first year following the introduction of the law criminalising forced marriage' (ikwro.org.uk, 2018) The unlawful acts of honour based violence has become a huge occurrence towards ethnic minorities diaspora, especially in the South Asian community. This has also been portrayed and perceived through television and film. In a much recent TV documentary on BBC called 'Murdered by My father'. The show has grasped sensitive issues like forced marriages and sheds light on the issues that south Asian girls are facing in a day to day. The drama documentary was crafted by real life stories from help of a UK charity that helps to support survivors of forced marriages and likewise aided by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Right Organisation, another charity for the Middle East and Afghan who also help
defend these young women. The show achieved to showcase how honour based violence and related abuse is happening to the everyday girl to which explains how much of an everyday problem this is, although it happens behind closed doors. Honour based violence has always been an issue, however even more than before as stories are emerging and just now the floodgates are opening to the world. My hypothesis 'The act of killing under the influence of honour based violence within the South Asian community' is the underlying factor but the questions that I will be asking is, where did this mentality of committing violence and thinking stem from? What is the root cause of honour abuse? Therefore, this study aims to assess why honour is such an immense influence and motivation on to making individuals commit such heinous crimes by reviewing existing literature on honour crime.
Proposed Methods of Achieving the Aims and Objectives outlined above: My study will be a literature review based project and will involve data collecting and reviewing existing published work as e a fundamental part of my study. Particularly I will be focusing on books and articles online as well as also falling back on appropriate sites and statistics (cps.gov.uk) Indicative Reading List: Brandon, J. and Hafez, S. (2010). Crimes of the community. London: Centre for Social Cohesion. Cps.gov.uk. (2017). Honour-Based Violence and Forced Marriage | The Crown