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At present, honour-based abuse is frequently misclassified. It is logged as generic domestic abuse, a missing person episode, a family dispute or a safeguarding concern. All these factors may be true, but none capture the specific, collective, cultural and escalating nature of honour-based abuse. Misclassification leads to underreporting, underprotection and underprosecution. It distorts the national statistics and prevents policymakers such as us and the Home Office understanding the scale of the problem.