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Empirical Research on Honor Killing
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This chapter analyzes relevant quantitative and qualitative research on honor killings. It includes an original empirical study—the Churchill-Holmes study—of 200 incidents from 28 countries and territories. Following a comparative analysis of major studies displayed in tables and charts, a number of generalizations, or central tendencies, are inferred. Central tendencies are divided into three major categories based on rough estimates of the probability that the characteristics in each category will be found in all or most instances of honor killing. Central tendencies pertain to the frequency of all known aspects of honor killings. This research serves as grounds for the analysis, hypotheses, and tentative conclusions drawn in the remainder of this book.
Title: Empirical Research on Honor Killing
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This chapter analyzes relevant quantitative and qualitative research on honor killings.
It includes an original empirical study—the Churchill-Holmes study—of 200 incidents from 28 countries and territories.
Following a comparative analysis of major studies displayed in tables and charts, a number of generalizations, or central tendencies, are inferred.
Central tendencies are divided into three major categories based on rough estimates of the probability that the characteristics in each category will be found in all or most instances of honor killing.
Central tendencies pertain to the frequency of all known aspects of honor killings.
This research serves as grounds for the analysis, hypotheses, and tentative conclusions drawn in the remainder of this book.
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