ABSTRACT
The number or honor crimes seemed to be increasing, but in looking more closely at the data, there appeared to be an increase in reporting rather than a true rise in incidence. Rather than having conversations involving the different dimensions of the topic, it was fairly common to end the discussion in a defense of Islam, and how honor is in large part a foundation of the faith, but honor killings are not accepted or condoned by the religion. It seemed that everyone within the society had first-hand experience with honor, but not everyone had experience with the actual crimes or killings that were associated with honor. The research process tends to be one sided, in the sense that the researcher is not typically collecting data on his/herself. Autoethnographer Carolyn Ellis defines autoethnography as "research, writing, story, and method that connects the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political".
