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Criminalization of forced marriage in Europe: A qualitative comparative analysis.
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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Sage Publications, Ltd.) . Jun2017, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p169-191. 23p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This article examines the causes of criminalization of forced marriage in European countries. The first part of the article locates the debate on forced marriage within the wider discourse of immigration, national identity, and women’s rights. The second part uses qualitative comparative analysis to analyze 29 European nations, 20 of which criminalized forced marriage. Our findings indicate that criminalization of forced marriage emerges out of a complex set of conditions and the causal recipes differ for early (before 2013) and late adopters (after 2013) of the policy of criminalization. For nations in which criminalization policy was adopted before 2013, the intermingling of world cultural, feminist, and right-wing policies is the main causal mechanism. For the late adopters, a similar causal path fails to emerge indicating that criminalization became normative in European policy environment. In other words, late adopters simply mimic others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *FORCED marriage
*EMIGRATION & immigration
*CRIME
*FEMINISTS
*NATIONALISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00207152
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Sage Publications, Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123635400
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715217710065