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Domestic violence : towards a new theoretical approach

Sushma Sood
Department of Sociology, University of Rajasthan, India

Published in:
International victimology : selected papers from the 8th International Symposium : proceedings of a symposium held 21-26 August 1994
Chris Sumner, Mark Israel, Michael O'Connell and Rick Sarre (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 24008 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1996

Abstract

The discussion in this paper is confined to four major types of domestic violence: wife battering, bride burning, exploitation and humiliation of widows, and abuse by children. Data on each of these four types were collected through an empirical study in western India. The results of this study show how women have been victimised in traditional Indian society.