Policing UK Honour-Based Abuse Crime

ISBN-13: 9783030184292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 337 str.

Rachael Aplin

Spis treści

Chapter one

Introducing honour-based abuse

Study aim and objectives

Introducing organisational police culture(s)

Policing and researching honour-based abuse

HBA and Domestic Abuse: Cultural distinctions and barriers to reporting 

Structure of the book

Chapter two

Methodology

Mixed method research design

Phase 1: Documentary case studies 

Phase 2: Semi structured interviews

   Positionality

Chapter three

  Distinguishing truth from lies: Victims are mad, bad or consenting 

HBA victim and perpetrator profiles

Vulnerable victims

The problematising and medicalising of victims

The trading of labels and neutralisation of the crime

Children make false allegations and ‘use’ the system

Can officers distinguish truth from lies?

Chapter four

   The grey figure of crime: If it isn’t crimed, it hasn’t happened

The importance of crime recording

Overall crime is under-recorded

HBA crime is under-recorded

Police preoccupation with performance targets 

The ‘reluctant’ victim

Chapter five

Deconstructing crime through language

      DASH risk assessments

      Deconstructing crime: Sin by omission

      Deconstructing crime: Distorting, altering and trivialising language

      Examples of good practice: Detailed high-risk DASH responses

Chapter six

    Female perpetration of honour-based abuse

Exploring female perpetration

Mothers use violence

Mothers use violence due to pregnancy

'Hard' psychological abuse

'Soft' psychological abuse

Females ostracise victims

Turning a “blind eye”: Mothers as complicit, ‘hapless’ secondary victims? 

Policing response to female perpetration, duress and individual agency

Chapter seven

HBA Child Protection and Partnership working 

The practice of mediation 

Child reconciliation home by children’s social care (CSC)

Increased demand for services and the ‘cost’ of social care

Child HBA cases: Professional responsibilities and ownership

Chapter eight

Conclusions  

HBA Investigations: Discretionary practices of professionals, their influence and impact

Deconstructing ‘crime’ and informally resolving incidents

Recommendations

Recommendations for police

Recommendations for social services

Recommendations for all professionals

O autorze

Rachael Aplin is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She was employed as Domestic Abuse Detective Sergeant in the Greater Manchester Police public protection division until 2016, and obtained her doctorate in 2017. 

Blurb

This book examines the different forms that honour-based abuse crimes take, and analyses the discretionary police practices employed when responding to these incidents. Honour-based abuse is an incident or crime involving violence, threats of violence, intimidation, coercion or abuse committed in order to protect or defend the honour of an individual, family and or community for a perceived breach of their code of behaviour. Based on unique UK police data, it includes examination of one hundred honour abuse cases and interviews with fifteen predominantly detective specialist police officers that investigate this crime. This book recognises the challenges encountered when policing honour-based abuse and offers recommendations for addressing them. It will particularly benefit police forces in England and Wales, the Home Office, scholars in gendered violence and policing and non-government organisations (charities supporting victims) by highlighting some of the issues associated with policing, partnership working arrangements and safeguarding victims of honour-based abuse crimes.