Crime, Conflict and Secularism: How Turkish Feminist Movement Challenges Social Codes and Criminal Justice System in the Prevention of Femicide

• In Event: Global Victimization

Abstract

This study explores a Turkish feminist movement campaigning to prevent femicide. The unyielding struggles of Turkish women challenge the structural and legal basis of the Turkish criminal justice system and provide a pivotal account to explore the volatile dynamics of a transforming society from a secular repertoire of culture to an androcentric Islamic paradigm. Exploring political rhetoric, court verdicts, identities of offenders, and the reactions of feminist activists,introduce the criminological landscape of secularism as a novel concept to unveil the role of secularism in politically contested places of injustice. Further, I claim that the criminological landscape of secularism opens new ways of uncovering the role of politicocultural character of society in the process of victimisation and resistance of vulnerable groups.

Author

• Baris Cayli, University of Derby