NCJ Number
169479
Date Published
1996
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This paper examines wife-battering, bride-burning, and exploitation and humiliation of widows in India.
Abstract
The study found, among other things, that: (1) It is not only economically dependent housewives who are battered by their husbands; (2) The high-risk category of batterers are men who have conservative attitudes towards women, have uncontrolled jealousy, who had faced battering in childhood, are depressed and insecure, and suffer from status frustration; (3) 88.2 percent of bride-burning victims were killed within 3 years of their marriage; (4) In 61.3 percent of the cases the brides' parents knew about the ill-treatment of their daughters by their in-laws but did not encourage their daughters to leave their husbands; (5) The victims' parents were generally not satisfied with the police investigation and felt the police had colluded with the offenders' families; and (6) Mothers who are most likely to be victimized by their children are those who lack social resources to retaliate effectively, have no place to go and are totally dependent on their sons and gave full authority to their sons during their adolescence. Reference