Crime for Honour: A Reflection on Indian Society

The primary aim of this article is to bring social structures and their ideological base in to the debate and to contribute to a deeper understanding of crime for honour in India. Crime for honour exists in human civilization since long. The evidences of such kind of crimes were usually typified for societies of primitive or traditional in nature. But the growing evidences of brutality of such crimes in present age is a cause of concern for us, hence needs a fresh look to the nature, causes of crime in general and crime for honour in particular from a different angle.