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Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Killings in Britain Private Lives, Community Crimes and Public Policy Perspectives
Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Killings in Britain
Biography
Christina Julios is Associate Lecturer at The Open University, UK and Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She was a member of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Domestic Violence External Consultation Group; Census Diversity Advisory Group; the Department for Work and Pensions Ethnic Minority Working Party; HM Revenue and Customs’ Voluntary and Community Sector Steering Group; Women’s Resource Centre Policy Forum; and the Crown Prosecution Service’s Race Equality Board.
"Julios has written an outstanding book documenting this appalling problem, and the agony of the thousands of individual victims. She is courageous and unsparing in her critique of the patriarchal attitudes which she (rightly) finds ultimately responsible. (...) I commend this book to anyone who thinks that gendered religious beliefs and behaviour are culturally innocent, or that multiculturalism has a future. Unusually accessible as a social science monograph, it is a heart-stopping exposure of violence and cruelty against (mainly but not exclusively) young women, that all people of good will must do all they can to resist." - Adrian Thatcher, Exeter
