The burden of honour

Authors

  • Palmina Caruso
  • Guido Travaini

Abstract

Is the homicide motivated by honour still present in Italy nowadays? The authors try to give an answer to this question analising some murders commited in Italy during the last years. The answer is that it is still present but is changing in his more important aspects. The reason is because of the migration phenomenons that are redifing the cultural and social parameters, introducing new values system. For example, betrayal moved from a couple dimension to a moral and religious ones. The authors focus on two crimes linked together by the same motif; Hina Salem, a young Pakistani girl, who was killed by her father because she used to work, smoke and hangout with friends; Brunetta Morabito, an Italian girl, gunshot wounded by her brother since she was pregnant but not married yet.

Published

2014-11-19

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