Honour-based abuse

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/23/005611/O

 Version Date: 28/05/2024

Please can you provide me with data on incidents of "honour-based" abuse (HBA) or "honour-based" violence (HBV) from 2010 onwards?

Please could you provide me with a breakdown of the incidents in categories on the types of offences, such as FGM, breast flattening etc?

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information

Data Source:                                                                                                            

Crime and enquiry data from UNIFI; further Crime data from Niche; Incident data from STORM                          

Data Processing:                                                                                    

OFFENCES DATA - UNIFI - 01/01/2020 to 14/11/2022

Qlikview report "UNIFI - Crime Lists - Specific Years", filtered on:               

Date Entered 01/01/2010 to 14/11/2022;                                                

Offence Status excluding "No Crime".                 

Further filtered on (independently):                                                       

FGM Related flag (CR_FGM_Flag value "1");                                                  

Forced Marriage flag (CR_ForcedMarriage_Flag value "1");                           

Honour Based Abuse flag (CR_HonourBasedAbuse_Flag value "1").         

Data exported and combined; duplicates removed.                                        

OFFENCES DATA - Niche - 15/11/2022 to 13/10/2023                                 

Qliksense report "Crime & Outcomes", filtered on:                                     

Include No-Crimes "No";                                                                          

Include Non-Notifiables "Yes".                                                                

Further filtered on (independently):                                                       

FGM Related "Yes";                                                                                    Forced Marriage Related "Yes";

HBA Related "Yes".                                                                                    Data exported and combined.                                                                 

Data with UNIFI Crime Refs removed - this data already exists in the UNIFI export. There are no duplicates remaining.                                                                                                          

INCIDENT DATA - from 15/11/2022 to 13/10/2023                                          

Qlikiew report "Incident Lists", filtered on:                                                          

Incident Created Date 15/11/2022 to 13/10/2023.                                                                                

Further filtered on (independently):                                             

Secondary Opening Qualifier "Fgm" (no results);                                 

Secondary Opening Qualifier "Hba" (no results);

Secondary Opening Qualifier "Fm" (no results);                                                

Closing Category Text Search "FGM";                                                                

Closing Category Text Search "HONOUR BASED";                            

Closing Category Text Search "FM" (no results);                                  

Closing Category Text Search "FORCED" (no results).                                                                                                           

Data exported and combined, duplicates removed.                                                                                                      

Occurrence References cross referenced to Offences Niche data - there are no Occurrence References common to both datasets.                                                                                                    

Please note the following data limitations:

• 2016 is the earliest data with HBA flags.
• The below numbers may not be accurate due to incorrect flagging for Honour Based Abuse.

1. The tables below show the number of offences flagged with one or more of the 3 HBA flags (Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriage, Honour Based Abuse) from 01/01/2010 to 14/11/2022*

Offence	Count
Other Sexual Offences	4
Theft	2
Arson	1
Burglary Dwelling	1
Burglary Non-Dwelling	1
Criminal Damage	12
Possession of drugs	6
Public order offences	10
Rape	10
Stalking & Harassment	42
Violence with injury	19
Violence without injury	31
Non-Notifiable	7
Other	11
Total	157

 

2. With FGM flag

Offence	Count
Criminal Damage	4
Non Notifiable	3
Possession of drugs	2
Public order offences	2
Stalking & Harassment	4
Violence with injury	4
Violence without injury	3
Total	22

 

3. With Forced Marriage flag

Offence	Count
Theft	2
Burglary Dwelling	1
Burglary Non-Dwelling	1
Criminal Damage	8
Non Notifiable	3
Other Sexual Offences	1
Possession of drugs	3
Public order offences	6
Rape	2
Stalking & Harassment	9
Violence with injury	5
Violence without injury	12
Other	1
Total	54

 

4. With Honour Based Abuse flag

Offence	Count
Arson	1
Criminal Damage	2
Non Notifiable	2
Other Sexual Offences	3
Possession of drugs	1
Public order offences	3
Rape	9
Stalking & Harassment	32
Violence with injury	10
Violence without injury	24
Other	10
Total	97

 

The table below shows the number of offences and incidents/enquiries which are flagged with one or more of the 3 HBA flags (Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriage, Honour Based Abuse) from 01/04/2018 to 13/10/2023

Offence	Count
Female Genital Mutilation	63
Forced Marriage	16
Honour Based Abuse	152
Honour Based Abuse and Female Genital Mutilation	2
Honour Based Abuse and Forced Marriage	4
Notifiable report incident	1
Other Sexual Offences	1
Rape	2
Violence with injury	2
Violence without injury	3
Total	246