1st Edition
Understanding Marital Violence A Case Study from Northeast India
By Kausiki Sarma
Copyright 2025
208 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the roles and interconnections between structural factors and individual agency in marital violence, focusing on women in heterosexual marital relationships. With the overall aim of improving recognition and strengthening responses to marital violence, it underlines what occurs as marital violence and why it is possibly occurring in the manner it does, while simultaneously... Read more
1. Introduction. 2.Typology of marital violence and its impact: A capabilities approach. 3.Re-victimisation or secondary victimisation within and through the civil-criminal justice system. 4.Structure as context in marital violence. 5.Agency in marital violence as hybridisation of habitus and reflexivity: Locating its characteristics, enablers, and deterrents. 6.Conclusion. Appendix
Biography
Kausiki Sarma, PhD, is currently working as a Research Associate at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, UK.
