A Study of Crime against Women: Vulnerability to Victimization

Introduction:

“Violence against women remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.’ 

 - Nicole Kidman

Crime against women and gender discrimination is not a unique feature of Indian society, but global phenomenon. In all the societies ‘East’ or ‘West’, ‘Developed’ or ‘Developing’ irrespective of religious faith and economic system, it exist .Women suffer deprivation, humiliation and denial of basic human rights in almost all walks of life, everywhere, at every stage, in varying degrees. Today also traditional societies regarded women as weak, emotional and unable to resist external temptations.

Crime: An act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law, especially:  a gross violation of law

‘It's a crime to let that beautiful garden go to ruin.’

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