ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the (desired) effect of an honor killing is re-acceptance of a family in the community. It provides definitions of rape and sexual deviance, including same-sex acts, and analyses terminology for honor killings in western and non-western languages. The terminology used by perpetrators, witnesses and others involved, some new terms have been formed that are exclusively used by circles of policy makers, journalists and activists. Rape victims, men and women alike, may encounter victim-blaming: occasionally their accounts of the incidents are not believed, and as a result they find themselves blamed. The chapter examines the definitions of honor killing, the motives for honor killing, the effect of the deviant behavior on family members and the various options they have to avert social sanctions. It explores cases of actual murders, whether they are instances of honor killing, and if so, whether the honor killing had the desired effect.
