Street Violence against Women in India: Mapping Prevention Strategies

This chapter focuses upon the extent to which people – and communities - have agency. How far can people make choices freely and/ or how far are people affected by wider structural constraints, when it comes to deciding to move, whether to flee from unbearable situations at home and/ or in search of better, more sustainable livelihoods elsewhere. And how can people and communities respond to being ‘kept in their place’, by the fear of violence outside, for instance. Strategies to tackle violence against women in India provide illustrations, for example. The chapter concludes by focussing upon some of the ways in which people and communities can be supported to enable them to exercise their agency to maximum effect, including via community-based popular education.

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Knitting the Future Story of Indian Women: Preventing Violence, Fostering Development, and Accelerating Empowerment

Udayana Journal of Law and Culture ◽

10.24843/ujlc.2017.v01.i02.p02 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 98

Author(s):

Prerna S Ramteke

Keyword(s):

Violence Against Women ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Present Situation ◽

Human Being ◽

Indian Women ◽

The Future ◽

The Relationship ◽

Women In India

A number of cases of women’s exploitation in India reflects serious problem in viewing and treating women. This article highlights the issues of women in India that are aimed to describe the violence against women in India that degrades their dignity as a human being, to analyze both conceptual and practical aspects of women, particularly with regards to their role in development and also to discuss the need for accelerating the empowerment of women in India. Some concepts such as the three classical approaches on the relationship between women and development are discussed in this writing. Besides this it also analyzes the present situation faced by Indian women that can potentially become obstacles for their development. In addition, this paper looks at some legal instruments and cases that relates to the legal protection of women in India. It is as a research in the field of Sociology that will be enriched by legal, cultural and economic approaches. It will also highlight about the dreams on the better situation for women in India that are expected to become true and will also encourage women in India to involve in any efforts to knit their future story.

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Using heat maps to identify areas prone to violence against women in the public sphere

Crime Science ◽

10.1186/s40163-020-00125-6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Margarita Garfias Royo ◽

Priti Parikh ◽

Jyoti Belur

Keyword(s):

Crime Prevention ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Visual Analysis ◽

Situational Crime Prevention ◽

Household Survey ◽

Situational Factors ◽

Prevention Strategies ◽

High Concentration ◽

Heat Maps ◽

Crime Data

Abstract The lack of accessible crime data, especially geolocations, in developing countries often acts as a barrier to identifying environmental or situational factors in high crime areas that might contribute to the facilitation of those crimes. This paper presents a methodology for conducting fieldwork for creating heat maps to identify areas prone to violence against women (VAW) in Corregidora, Mexico. Heat maps were produced based on household survey data. The results were used to select specific high concentration locations to conduct structured observations and inductive visual analysis at street level in order to identify if and what situational factors might influence the perpetration of VAW in those locations. Four broad features were identified in the urban built environment during the site visits linked to the facilitation of opportunities for the commission of VAW: (1) lacking infrastructure, (2) presence of physical obstacles, (3) poor visibility and (4) restricted pedestrian mobility. The paper demonstrates the utility of this method for aiding situational crime prevention strategies in areas where official spatial crime data is unavailable or lacking. This study presents a relatively low cost (although labour intensive) and independent method of aiding crime prevention strategies, which will hopefully be of practical value for organisations in areas with poor crime recording practices and limited access to expensive mapping technologies.

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From the Home to the Borders: Violence Against Women, Impunity and Resistance

Social Change ◽

10.1177/0049085720923875 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 199-214

Author(s):

Uma Chakravarti

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Women's Movement ◽

The Family ◽

Class Power ◽

Women In India

In this article, I will examine the arc of violence that women in India have been historically subjected to, as well as new arenas in which violence is now manifesting itself. The focus is on four arenas in which violence against women, especially sexual violence, needs to be located as each of these have specific features that are associated with the manner in which impunity operates, thereby invisibilising violence, and the long road traversed by the women’s movement in challenging that violence. The four arenas are: first, the home where violence is enacted in the intimate sphere of the family; second, the streets and fields where caste and class power provide impunity to the perpetrators; third, villages and regions where communal and targetted violence have been enacted, often with administrative and state complicity, especially in recent decades; and fourth, the borderlands where impunity is sought to be derived from special laws that the security state has put into operation to control turbulent populations.

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Sexual Violence Against Women in India: Daily Life and Coping Strategies of Young Women in Delhi

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/1077801218824056 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (14) ◽

pp. 1717-1738 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Christina Nieder ◽

Christoph Muck ◽

Joscha Kärtner

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Current Situation ◽

Women's Lives ◽

Students First ◽

First Results ◽

And Coping ◽

Societal Dynamics ◽

Women In India

This study assesses the current situation concerning sexual violence against women in India and women’s individual coping strategies. We conducted 15 semistructured interviews with 17- to 22-year-old Indian college students. First, results about the current situation showed threatening circumstances for women and revealed how deeply sexual violence affects women’s lives. Second, to cope with sexual violence women mentioned three types of strategies, namely (a) safety, (b) avoidance, and (c) empowerment strategies. In the discussion, we suggest that women’s use of safety and avoidance strategies are safety behaviors that play a key role in maintaining women’s fear and societal dynamics.

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Repercussions of imprisonment for conjugal violence: discourses of men

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/1518-8345.1569.2847 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (0) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anderson Reis de Sousa ◽

Álvaro Pereira ◽

Gilvânia Patrícia do Nascimento Paixão ◽

Nadirlene Gomes Pereira ◽

Luana Moura Campos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Social Stigma ◽

Social Consequences ◽

Prevention Strategies ◽

Emotional Symptoms ◽

R Software ◽

Conjugal Violence ◽

Domestic Violence Against Women

ABSTRACT Objective: to know the consequences that men experience related to incarceration by conjugal violence. Methods: qualitative study on 20 men in jail and indicted in criminal processes related to conjugal violence in a Court specialized in Family and Domestic Violence against women. The interviews were classified based on Collective Subject Discourse method, using NVIVO(r) software. Results: the collective discourse shows that the experience of preventive imprisonment starts a process of family dismantling, social stigma, financial hardship and psycho-emotional symptoms such as phobia, depression, hypertension, and headaches. Conclusion: due to the physical, mental and social consequences of the conjugal violence-related imprisonment experience, it is urgent to look carefully into the somatization process as well as to the prevention strategies regarding this process.

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