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Towards a Psychologically Oriented Motivational Model of Honour-Based Violence

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The aim of this chapter is to present a psychologically oriented, motivational model of honour-based violence (HBV) perpetration. It briefly considers existing theories of HBV and identifies some of their shortcomings, especially their failure to account for some of the empirical evidence concerning HBV perpetration, including violence against men. It then proposes an alternative theoretical framework (the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB); Ajzen, 1991, 2001, 2011) that can be applied to explain individual motivation to commit an act of HBV. It argues that the TPB model accounts more readily than gender-exclusive or culturally based explanations for the perpetration of violence justified by claims of honour.

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  1. University of Roehampton, UK

    Aisha K. Gill

  2. Australian National University, Australia

    Carolyn Strange

  3. University of Western Sydney, Australia

    Karl Roberts

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Roberts, K. (2014). Towards a Psychologically Oriented Motivational Model of Honour-Based Violence. In: Gill, A.K., Strange, C., Roberts, K. (eds) ‘Honour’ Killing and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137289568_4

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