Sexual Crimes in Indian Society: Causes, Cases, and Discussion - Prof. Kumar C, Papers of Criminology

Download Sexual Crimes in Indian Society: Causes, Cases, and Discussion - Prof. Kumar C and more Papers Criminology in PDF only on Docsity! SEXUAL CRIMES IN INDIAN SOCIETY * Theju Kumar C ** Dr. J.L. Kalyan ABSTRACT: All societies regulate sexual behavior, although regulations different from culture to culture. Sex offenders are commonly to commit a deviant act when oppression increases and alternative adoptions are unavailable. Many sexual offences take place while after a rejection by a vital respondent, a vocational failure or a humiliation which leads to lowering of status. In a society the public usually oppose with deviant acts, anger, disgust and fear upon hearing about degenerates who molest young children. Moreover, the community very often shouts for the strict, maximum prosecution of the offender. Some of the people in society convinced that sex offenders is a fundamentally attacked by bad spirit with inner sinister force. People believe that sexual offences locate the problem within the individual and assume that society should protect its citizen from such a deviant personality. The study tried to study the main causes of the sexual offences and the steps taken by the government to prevent the sexual crimes in society. KEY WORDS: Sexual Crime, Female Victims, Society, Sexual Behavior, *Research Scholar, Dept of Criminology and Forensic Science, Karnatak Science College, Dharwad. Email : thejas1310@gmail.com **Research Supervisor, HOD Dept of Criminology and Forensic Science, Karnatak Science College, Dharwad. Email : drjagadeeshkalyan@gmail.com INTRODUCTION: India, a country which had Mahatma Gandhi as its good example of integrity turned out to be so inconceivably rough and degenerate that the ladies can never again be sheltered inside of their bodies. Gandhi who crushed the whites to spare the tans by depending on peacefulness is considered as the country's father, however his qualities are being sold out so effectively that a lady is assaulted like clockwork on the planet's biggest majority rule government and even offspring of five years are subjected to assault. Sex related offenses are widespread marvels, which happen in each general public. Sexual offenses appropriately take the type of sexual savagery, which some of the time cause serious and hopeless harm to the physical and psychological well-being of the casualties. Physical damage incorporates an expanded danger of a scope of sexual and conceptive wellbeing issues. Its effect on psychological well-being can be similarly genuine as that of physical harm. Sexual offenses, when they accept the type of sexual savagery may prompt homicide, suicide, intense melancholy, and so on of casualties. It completely irritates the social prosperity of the casualties as a result of criticism and the weighty loss of status in their families and the area. CASE STUDY: The motivation to choose the particular three cases for this study is on the grounds that the cases are joined with the exploration question. The cases are comparative and the casualties in the cases have the same personalities of inter sectionality. Both, the basic and societal framework is associated with the cases furthermore in a few ways impacts the cases' result. CASE I: 2004, Thangjam Manorama Devi Case In June 2004, Manipur, which is the northeastern state of India with the majority of its population belonging to the ethnic tribal group, witnessed the abuse of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Thirty two year old, Thangjam Manorama Devi was brutally tortured, raped and executed by personnel of the paramilitary force of 17 Assam Rifles (Human Rights Watch Report, September 15, 2008). CONCLUSION : Sexual wrongdoing against ladies is all around denounced. Indeed, this kind of wrongdoing is a smear on the substance of any socialized society. It mirrors the attitude of a backward time with patriarchal predominance. They are the signs of a profound established ailment, which has financial, social and political moorings. The undertaking can't be expert just by the police alone yet must be shared by the various wings of the criminal equity framework. Especially, the legal needs to take it upon itself to see that no culprit of these law violations goes unpunished. Alongside the criminal equity functionaries, non administrative associations, media individuals, political pioneers, social specialists and even the regular man need to organize to make a situation in which sexual roughness against ladies and youngsters won't multiply. What is most vital is that the general state of mind of society should be changed for the nobility of ladies and youngsters which would require expansive scale education among ladies people and the financial change of the discouraged masses. Universal tries should be further empowered to such a degree, to the point that their result is reflected in the national endeavors of distinctive nations. REFERENCES: 1. Anil Bhuimali(2011),Gender Violence and Social Exclusion; New Delhi; Serials Publications. 2. Crime in India (2008), National Crime Record Bureau of India. 3. Goonesekere, Savitri (2004) Violence, Law and Women's Rights in South Asia, SAGE Publications-India. 4. Mahendra, P.S.(1998), Shukla’s Constitution of India. Lucknow; Eastern Book Company.. 5. Mohanty, Manoranjan (2004) Class, Caste, Gender, SAGE Publications-India. 6. Peters, Julie; Wolper, Andrea (1995) Women’s Rights Human Rights-International Feminist Perspectives, Routledge, Inc. 7. Ram Ahuja (2000),Criminology. 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