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Violence against Women in India book cover

1st Edition

Violence against Women in India

Edited By N. Prabha Unnithan, Mahesh K. Nalla Copyright 2018
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge
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Women in India constitute nearly half of its population of over a billion people, and this book is a rigorous social scientific examination of the issue of violence against women in India. It draws from the latest criminological research on the nature and extent of such violence; discusses cultural myths and practices that underlie the problem; and examines policies and programs that respond to... Read more

Preface  1. Exploring the trend of violence against women in India  2. Towards identifying and ranking selected types of violence against women in North India  3. Extreme cases and the criminal justice system: responses to a traumatic sexual assault in India  4. Perpetuating myths of women as false complainants in rape cases in India: culture V. The law  5. Perceptions of gender-based violence around public toilets in Mumbai slums  6. Community effects on women’s help-seeking behaviour for intimate partner violence in India: gender disparity, feminist theory, and empowerment  7. Sexual violence perpetrated against women in India: the role of forensic evidence

Biography

N. Prabha Unnithan is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA.



Mahesh K. Nalla is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.

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