Honour Based Crimes

1. How do you distinguish "honour-based violence" from other forms of violence in terms of recording procedures and statistical analysis?
2. How do you distinguish "hate crime" from other forms of crime in terms of recording procedures and statistical analysis?

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

1. Honour based violence is a crime or incident which has or may have been committed to protect or defend the honour of a family and/or a community and can include assaults, disfigurement, sexual assault and rape, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, kidnap, false imprisonment or stalking.

The victims of these crimes are extremely vulnerable. The only method of capturing whether other offences may have been motivated by 'honour' would be to examine the MO

2. The only categories nationally acknowledged within the Home Office Counting Rules For Crime as `Hate Crime` relate to Racial or Religious Aggravation ONLY, and then only in the following crime categories:

Racially or Religiously Aggravated GBH without Intent.

Racially or Religiously Aggravated ABH.

Racially or Religiously Aggravated Public Fear, Alarm or Distress.

Racially or Religiously Aggravated Criminal Damage.

Again, the only method of capturing whether other offences may have been motivated by `Hate` such as Homophobia, Transgender, etc: would be to examine MO`s.