VAWG HSF Executive Summary

We, the people of India, wake up periodically to incidents that ‘shock the conscience of the nation’, are outraged for a while, and then revert to norm. This outrage is managed by promising more stringent and evermore ridiculous punishments to perpetrators. But hard cases make bad law and worse precedent, as the Supreme Court of India has found.

How she figures is to help tune out the noise and focus on the signal for rational response, effective remedies, and sustainable solutions by drawing on the data from the annual Crime In India reports of the National Crime Records Bureau from 1953 to 2022, the relevant legislation, and judgements of the Supreme Court of India. If numbers are your forte or evidence is your priority, this is the book on crime against women and girls that you have been waiting for.

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