Front Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Honour and honour killing -- 1.1. Two types of honour: namus and seref -- 1.2. Honour killing and blood revenge -- 1.3. Turkish jurisprudence and honour killing -- 1.4. Islam and honour killing -- 1.5. Honour killing in the Netherlands -- 2. The victim -- 2.1. Who is the victim? -- 2.2. Rape claims -- 2.3. Honour killing of newborn babies -- 2.4. Honour killing of a member of the honour violator's family -- 2.5. Multiple honour killings -- 2.6. Honour killing of an implicated third party -- 2.7. The wrong person is killed -- 2.8. Failed honour killing -- 2.9. The funeral -- 2.10. Protests against honour killing -- 3. The honour killer -- 3.1. Honour killing as a ritual -- 3.2. Planning: accomplices -- 3.3. The honour killer has motives of his own -- 3.4. Female honour killers -- 3.5. Hired assassins -- 3.6. Disguised honour killing -- 3.7. Dutch jurisprudence and honour killing -- 4. Marriage and elopement -- 4.1. The rejected marriage proposal -- 4.2. Elopement -- 4.3. Honour killing following an elopement -- 4.4. The girl is killed -- 5. More case studies -- 5.1. Authority over the children -- 5.2. Incitement to murder -- 5.3. A crime of passion -- 5.4. Sexual insults -- 5.5. Pathological honour killing -- 5.6. Murder/manslaughter for reasons of male pride -- 6. Alternatives to honour killing -- 6.1. No more responsibility for the woman -- 6.2. No action -- 6.3. Minimum response -- 6.4. Withdrawal -- 6.5. Calling in the authorities -- 6.6. Injuring the namus of the honour violator -- 7. Why an honour killing? -- 7.1. Pressure from the Turkish community -- 7.2. Objectives other than honour purification -- 7.3. Provocation -- 7.4. Circumstances of the honour killer or accomplice -- 7.5. Honour killing following an elopement -- 7.6. Honour killing within the family.

7.7. Other contributing factors -- 7.8. The situation of immigrants -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. More case studies from the court records -- Appendix II. Case studies from Bitlis province -- Appendix III. The Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) and honour killing -- Notes -- Literature -- Index.