Assessing Risk of Patriarchal Violence with Honour as a Motive: Six Years Experience Using the PATRIARCH Checklist

Few crimes are as complicated to investigate and understand as honour-based crimes. The planning and execution often involves multiple family members, usually without personality disorders or major mental disorders, and can include mothers, sisters, brothers, male cousins, uncles and grandfathers wh...

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Published in:International Journal of Police Science & Management 2012-03, Vol.14 (1), p.20-29
Main Authors: Belfrage, Henrik, Strand, Susanne, Ekman, Linda, Hasselborg, Anna-Karin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authority
Checklists
Crime
honour-based violence
Law enforcement
PATRIARC
PATRIARCH
Personality disorders
police
Psychology
Psykologi
risk assessment
Violence
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Summary:Few crimes are as complicated to investigate and understand as honour-based crimes. The planning and execution often involves multiple family members, usually without personality disorders or major mental disorders, and can include mothers, sisters, brothers, male cousins, uncles and grandfathers whose actions are by many, themselves included, considered as good or necessary. Investigations often have to be carried out transnational, involving many authorities and sometimes several countries. This paper describes the process of developing an evidence-based checklist which has been used for six years in Sweden as an aid for law enforcement and social authorities in cases with suspected risk for honour-based violence. Data from 56 recent cases are presented and discussed.
ISSN:1461-3557
1478-1603
1478-1603
DOI:10.1350/ijps.2012.14.1.250