The honour-crime versus crime-of-passion distinction encodes a racial hierarchy as gender progress

Evidence

A crime of honour is a crime originating in culture/race, whereas a crime of passion originates in gender (abstracted from all other considerations). A crime of honour thus involves body, emerging as it does as a cultural tradition, and a crime of gender is mind, a distinctly individualized practice born of deviancy and criminality. The honour/passion distinction not only obscures the cultural and community approval so many crimes against women have in majority culture, but it reifies Muslims as stuck in premodernity while Westerners have progressed as fully rational subjects with the capacity to choose moral actions, even if the choice is a bad one. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 298

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial hierarchies operate through gender, sexuality, and class simultaneously — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 786