Understanding Domestic Violence As A Crime: A Criminological And Victimological Study

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Shreya Pragadh, Alliance School of Law, Alliance University

1. ABSTRACT

Domestic violence is the problem which affects all societies worldwide, yet it’s also the main issue that’s been neglected for a very long time. While it was once seen as a personal family issue, it is now viewed as a crime and a violation of human rights and human diginity. The purpose of this research, which is titled Understanding Domestic Violence as a Crime: A Criminological and Victimological Study, which is to seek to understand domestic violence from a criminological and victimological perspective in order to gain an understanding of its causes, its dynamics, and its effect on its victims in today’s world.

Domestic violence from the criminological perspective is viewed as a social and behavioural phenomenon. Domestic Violence has been defined as possible through several criminological theories and models (i.e. Social Learning Theory, Strain Theory & Feminist Criminology) during the analysing and understanding of domestic violence as a crime, that ultimately showing offenders motivations to commit this form of violence against their partners,family members specially their wife for dowry. Victimology is a form of understanding the experience of Victims and documenting the psychological, psychosocial, economic, emotional impact of the abuse & the difficulties that victims face in finding justice and safety and making sure that the abuser or accused has been held accountable for their actions. Partnership between the two perspectives ( i.e. Criminological & Victimological ) provide a complete picture which help to understand offenders motivations to commit violence against females and provide a thorough examination of the vulnerabilities of the victims of Domestic Violence and how that provides insight into developing better strategies for law enforcement and ultimately increase the level of enforcement of the laws and increase the level of protections which is provided to the victims of Domestic Violence.

Keywords: Domestic Violence, Enforcement, Criminology, Victimology, Psychological.

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