This book is an amazing compilation of techniques used to solves murders and other criminal activities. It's chapters cover everything from how they trail a killer, to fingerprints and genetic material, to bullets and poisons. At the end of the chapters, it has case studies that give you a real life application of what the chapter talked about. It has case studies on Ted Bundy, Timothy McVeigh, Snowtown murders in Australia, and many, many others. I liked reading the case studies and learning the real-life applications. It's a good book to read, and also a good reference book. (Not as a killer, mind you. As a student of criminology.)
Have a wonderful day!
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Murder in the name of Honor by Rana Husseini
Now, I want to make it very clear: If you read this review, then you decide that they are evil, horrible people, then you are not invited back to this blog. I am reviewing this book to bring to light the small percentage of these crimes and what is being done about it. I do not want to start a fight about this, I do not want to come across as a "feminist" or "racist", although I do believe women need more equal rights, in every country. I picked up the book because it was about something I had heard very little about, and surprisingly, not many in the US have ever heard of it. (I almost didn't review this one at all because of the possible problems it would cause to those who are arrogant, ignorant jerks.)
This book is about a Jordanian journalist who got assigned to write about a so called "honour killing" that had happened. When she did this, she discovered that these "honour killings" happen quite frequently and always, always involve the killing of a woman by her male relatives hand. They always involve the girl "shaming" the males family name by either talking to another man, going out without a headscarf, not being a virgin, or even having an unknown phone number on their cell phones. If they have a cell phone.
Rana goes on to discover that it is perfectly legal in Jordan to kill your female relative if they have shamed you, and most only get six months imprisonment where they are treated as heros.
Rana started to see what she could do to change it and the rest of the book shows that process. As of the publishing of the book, she is still working on getting the laws fixed so women have equal rights as men. (By the way, if they kill their husbands for any reason, even to get away from the abuse, they are often imprisoned for life or they are killed. Hows that for fairness?)
I think this is a great book, and it shows how things actually are in Jordan and what's being done to change it. It doesn't only happen in Jordan either. It happens in Afghanistan, Iran, even Europe and the USA. I hope she gets the laws, and the cultural beliefs about this, changed. But it needs to be done within the system, not from the outside. She gets my support in her venture.
This book is about a Jordanian journalist who got assigned to write about a so called "honour killing" that had happened. When she did this, she discovered that these "honour killings" happen quite frequently and always, always involve the killing of a woman by her male relatives hand. They always involve the girl "shaming" the males family name by either talking to another man, going out without a headscarf, not being a virgin, or even having an unknown phone number on their cell phones. If they have a cell phone.
Rana goes on to discover that it is perfectly legal in Jordan to kill your female relative if they have shamed you, and most only get six months imprisonment where they are treated as heros.
Rana started to see what she could do to change it and the rest of the book shows that process. As of the publishing of the book, she is still working on getting the laws fixed so women have equal rights as men. (By the way, if they kill their husbands for any reason, even to get away from the abuse, they are often imprisoned for life or they are killed. Hows that for fairness?)
I think this is a great book, and it shows how things actually are in Jordan and what's being done to change it. It doesn't only happen in Jordan either. It happens in Afghanistan, Iran, even Europe and the USA. I hope she gets the laws, and the cultural beliefs about this, changed. But it needs to be done within the system, not from the outside. She gets my support in her venture.
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