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This interdisciplinary collection provides a compelling analysis of the practices and beliefs that lead to violence against women, men and children in the name of 'honour', with a range of international insights from criminology, psychology, law and history. The volume advances legal and theoretical debates through the analysis of established research and presents new evidence and insights, addressing key questions such as: What psychological processes are relevant in the motivation of honour violence? Under what historical circumstances, and through what strategies, have honourable masculinity and violence been dissociated? Can honour be reconceptualised in ways that challenge violent practices justified in its name? By locating 'honour' killing and 'honour' based violence within and beyond debates on violence against women and girls, this collection offers recommendations to inform both theory and practice, making this an essential resource for teachers and students, health professionals, police officers, lawyers, social workers, policy-makers, and activists working against gendered forms of violence.

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative book challenges widely-held problematic beliefs about CSA and discusses societal responses and attitudes to survivors. It brings together multidisciplinary expertise from key researchers and practitioners around the world to better understand CSA in Black and racially minoritised communities and to provide recommendations for improving legal, policy and practical responses. It provides an international overview, covering theory, practice and policy and action-oriented research to determine how countries can individually and collectively work to prevent CSA with specific, vulnerable groups and in general. It also examines how intersectional marginalisation affects experiences of, and responses to, CSA. This essential body of work is thoroughly researched and includes first hand testimony which will deepen the understanding of students, academics, policy-makers and professionals including social workers, service staff and activists working at the frontline. Professor Aisha K. Gill Ph.D. CBE is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol, UK. She has been involved in addressing the problem of violence against women and children, 'honour' crimes, forced marriage, sexual abuse and femicidal violence at the grassroots/activist level for 23 years. She is Co-Chair of End Violence Against Women Coalition, a network that campaigns to end all forms of violence against women. She also sat on the 2021 CEDAW Peoples Tribunal hearings into womens rights in the United Kingdom. Dr Hannah Begum is Research and Evaluation Officer at the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse, UK. Her current ESRC funded project explores the impact of Covid-19 on minority Muslim communities in Birmingham. Her research interests lie broadly in the fields of victimology, child sexual abuse and the experiences of Black and minoritised communities in the criminal justice system. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Understanding forced marriage : definitions and realities /Geetanjali Gangoli [and others] --Reconceptualising consent and coercion within an intersectional understanding of forced marriage /Sundari Anitha, Aisha K. Gill --Forced marriage : the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 /Shazia Choudhry --Border control to prevent forced marriages : choosing between protecting women and protecting the nation /Anja Bredal --The social construction of forced marriage and its 'victim' in media coverage and crime policy discourses /Sundari Anitha, Aisha K. Gill --Forced marriage legislation in the UK : a critique /Aisha K. Gill, Sundari Anitha --The law, the courts and their effectiveness /Teertha Gupta, Khatun Sapnara --The practice of law-making and the problem of forced marriage : what is the role of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal? /Samia Bano --Constructing victims, construing credibility : forced marriage, Pakistani women and the UK asylum process /Marzia Balzani --'Wayward girls' and 'well-wisher parents' : habeas corpus, women's rights to personal liberty, consent to marriage and the Bangladeshi courts /Sara Hossain.

Our article seeks to understand the contours of what has been termed a 'dual pandemic' in the UK: twin crises of increasing domestic violence and abuse (DVA) alongside the spread of COVID-19, both of which have disproportionately affected Black and minoritised communities. Our article draws upon the perspectives of 26 practitioners who provide specialist DVA services for Black and minoritised women and girls in England and Wales. Based on interviews with these practitioners, we explore the nature and patterns of the DVA which their Black and minoritised women clients experienced during the pandemic. Our findings highlight the pandemic-related risks and challenges that lead to specific manifestations of DVA within Black and minoritised communities and reveal the practice and policy landscape of the 'by and for' DVA sector during the pandemic and beyond.

This article analyses 26 interviews with frontline female practitioners from domestic violence and abuse (DVA) services for racially minoritised women in England and Wales, exploring how these practitioners – who are from the same racially minoritised communities as the women they support – responded to the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis. These specific practitioner perspectives offer valuable insights into the specific ways in which the pandemic exacerbated the intersectional vulnerabilities of minoritised women experiencing DVA. Interpreted through a standpoint feminist lens, the findings reveal how frontline practitioners used bureaucratic discretion both to meet minoritised women's changed needs during the pandemic in order to enhance their safety and to challenge the exclusions and intersectional inequalities underpinning pandemic policies. The study illuminates the institutional dimensions of frontline practitioner responses to the pandemic and contribute to debates within the street-level bureaucracy scholarship about the nature of bureaucratic discretion exercised by frontline practitioners.

Forced marriage (FM) affects many communities in the UK and has far-reaching consequences for individuals and society. In light of the UK's new FM legislation, introduced in 2007 and 2014, this paper analyses the UK's first successful FM prosecution, concerning a mother who forced her daughter into marriage overseas. This case study highlights the importance of understanding the role that culture (including family values and norms) plays in FM, both in terms of achieving successful prosecutions and providing effective assistance to victims. This understanding is best developed by including intermediaries in police investigations and expert witnesses in the courtroom. The paper also explores how expert witnesses and intermediaries help realise the new legislation's potential to empower victims.

This paper examines the problematisation of sex-selective abortion (SSA) in UK parliamentary debates on Fiona Bruce's Abortion (Sex-Selection) Bill 2014–15 and on the subsequent proposed amendment to the Serious Crime Bill 2014–15. On the basis of close textual analysis, we argue that a discursive framing of SSA as a form of cultural oppression of minority women in need of protection underpinned Bruce's Bill; in contrast, by highlighting issues more commonly articulated in defence of women's reproductive rights, the second set of debates displaced this framing in favour of a broader understanding, drawing on postcolonial feminist critiques, of how socio-economic factors constrain all women in this regard. We argue that the problematisation of SSA explains the original cross-party support for, and subsequent defeat of, the policies proposed to restrict SSA. Our analysis also highlights the central role of ideology in the policy process, thus making politics visible in policymaking.