Honor Related Violence - A New Social Psychological Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Robert Ermers is a researcher at Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. An arabist and turcologist, his first specialisation was his linguistics PhD (1995). Since 2007 he has written (in Dutch) about honor and honor related violence. He is an experienced and acclaimed trainer and consultant in matters of honor related violence. Zusammenfassung This book examines honor and honor related violence, its background and contexts, what honor is, and what it is not. Exploring stigma in relation to honor and based upon stigma research, it reliably explains and analyses honor related violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The context of this book 2. Approaches to the study of honor 3. Dishonour and Stigma 4. Violence and stigma 5. Blood revenge 6. Honor killing 7. Conclusions Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Ermers, Ermers Robert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138749146
• ISBN: 978-1-138-74914-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Clinical psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Groups and group theory