Honor Killing Database v.1.0

We developed new dataset of suspected honor killings worldwide specifically for this project. We focus on honor killings here due to their more visible nature: honor killings in particular “are intended to be public statements, to restore honour to a family, to shame individual women, and to deter other women from resisting cultural codes of family and community” (Hellgren and Hobson, 2008, p. 386). Furthermore, murders, due to their violent nature, are thought of as more serious and “newsworthy” crimes and thus more likely to be reported to the police and by the media (Marsh, 1991; Chermak, 2002, Hart and Rennison, 2003; Chermak and Gruenewald, 2006; Siegler et al., 2008; Tarling and Morris, 2010; Gruenewald et al., 2013).