Penculikan mempelai

Penculikan mempelai, yang juga dikenal sebagai pernikahan melalui penculikan atau pernikahan melalui penangkapan, adalah sebuah praktik di mana seorang pria menculik seorang wanita yang ia ingin dinikahi. Penculikan mempelai telah dipraktikkan di seluruh dunia dan sepanjang sejarah. Praktik tersebut masih terjadi di negara-negara di Asia Tengah, kawasan Kaukasus dan sebagian Afrika, dan sejumlah suku seperti suku Hmong di Asia Tenggara, suku Tzeltal di Meksiko, dan suku Romani di Eropa.

Di kebanyakan negara, penculikan mempelai dianggap sebagai kejahatan seks ketimbang bentuk pernikahan yang sah. Beberapa jenis dari praktik tersebut juga dipandang jatuh di antara pernikahan paksa dan pernikahan perjodohan. Istilah tersebut terkadang digunakan tak hanya meliputi penculikan, tetapi juga kawin lari, di mana sebuah pasangan melarikan diri bersama dan menghindari perhatian dari orang tua mereka; hal tersebut masing-masing dianggap sebagai penculikan yang tak dikehendaki dan dikehendaki. Namun, bahkan saat praktik tersebut bertentangan dengan hukum, penegakan yudisialnya masih lemah di beberapa wilayah, seperti Moldova, Kirgizstan dan Chechnya.

Penculikan mempelai berbeda dengan raptio karena penculikan mempelai merujuk kepada penculikan seorang wanita dengan seorang pria (dan teman-teman dan kerabat-kerabatnya), dan masih merupakan praktik yang merebak, sementara raptio merujuk kepada penculikan wanita berskala besar oleh sekelompok pria, diyakini pada masa perang (lihat pula pemerkosaan perang).

Beberapa budaya mada masa sekarang mengutamakan ritual penculikan mempelai simbolik sebagai bagian dari tradisi terkait pernikahan, di mana praktik penculikan mempelai ditampilkan dalam sejarah budaya tersebut. Menurut beberapa sumber, bulan madu adalah relik dari pernikahan melalui penangkapan, berdasarkan pada praktik suami menyembunyikan istrinya agar tidak diketahui para kerabatnya, dengan tujuan agar wanita tersebut mengandung pada akhir bulan.

Daftar pustaka

Buku 
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Laporan hak asasi manusia 

 Amnesty International, Georgia—Thousands Suffering in Silence: Violence Against Women in the Family , AI Index: EUR 56/009/2006, September 2006 (last accessed 18 Aug 2011).
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Artikel berita dan laporan radio 

 Aminova, Alena, "Uzbekistan: No Love Lost in Karakalpak Bride Thefts" , Institute of War and Peace Reporting, 14 June 2004
 Armstrong, Jane, "Rage or Romance?", Globe and Mail (Canada), 26 April 2008
 BBC, "Ethiopia: Revenge of the Abducted Bride", 18 June 1999
 Brooks, Courtney & Amina Umarova, "Despite Official Measures, Bride Kidnapping Endemic in Chechnya", Radio Free Europe, 21 October 2010
 Kokhodze, Gulo & Tamuna Uchidze, "Bride Theft Rampant in Southern Georgia", Institute of War and Peace Reporting, 15 June 2006
 Najibullah, Farangis, "Bride Kidnapping: A Tradition or a Crime?", Radio Free Europe, 21 May 2011
 Isayev, Ruslan, "In Chechnya, Attempts to Eradicate Bride Abduction", Prague Watchdog, 16 Nov 2007
 Kiryashova, Sabina, "Azeri Bride Kidnappers Risk Heavy Sentences", Institute of War and Peace Reporting, 17 November 2005
 McDonald, Henry, "Gardai Hunt Gang Accused of Seizing Roma Child Bride", The Guardian, UK, 3 September 2007
 NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, "Kidnapping Custom Makes a Comeback in Georgia", 14 May 2006
 Rakhimdinova, Aijan, "Kyrgyz Bride Price Controversy", Institute of War and Peace Reporting, 22 Dec 2005
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 Ruremesha, Jean, "RIGHTS-RWANDA: Marriage by Abduction Worries Women's Groups" , Inter Press Service, 7 Oct 2003
 Smith, Craig S., "Abduction, Often Violent, a Kyrgyz Wedding Rite", NY Times, 30 April 2005

Disertasi dan makalah akademik 

 Moua, Teng, "The Hmong Culture: Kinship, Marriage & Family Systems", University of Wisconsin–Stout (May 2003)
 Pamporov, Alexey, Roma/Gypsy Population in Bulgaria as a Challenge to Policy Relevance  (2006)

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 The Kidnapped Bride: A documentary by Petr Lom
 Dedicated to Understanding Ala Kachuu (bride-kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan) and Preventing Non-Consensual Marriage 
 Spotlight on: Violence Against Girls in Ethiopia – Marriage by Abduction and Rape
 Rights-Rwanda: Marriage by Abduction Worries Women's Groups 
 Article on the kidnap of a young girl for marriage in Kyrgyzstan 
 BBC documentary about stolen brides in Chechnya Aired August 2010.

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