Domestic Violence As A Bargaining Instrument In Rural India

Author : Francis Bloch
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terror as a Bargaining Instrument written by Francis Bloch and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some aspects of violent behavior are linked to economic incentives. In India, domestic violence is used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a wife's family after the marriage has taken place.

Author : Francis Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Violence as a Bargaining Instrument in Rural India written by Francis Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vijayendra Rao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terror as a Bargaining Instrument written by Vijayendra Rao and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some aspects of violent behavior are linked to economic incentives and deserve more attention from economists. In India, for example, domestic violence is used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a wife's family, after the marriage has taken place.Bloch and Rao examine how domestic violence may be used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a spouse's family. The phrase dowry violence refers not to the dowry paid at the time of the wedding, but to additional payments demanded by the groom's family after the marriage. The additional dowry is often paid to stop the husband from systematically beating the wife.Bloch and Rao base their case study of three villages in southern India on qualitative and survey data. Based on the ethnographic evidence, they develop a noncooper-ative bargaining and signaling model of dowries and domestic violence. They test the predictions from those models on survey data.They find that women whose families pay smaller dowries suffer increased risk of marital violence. So do women who come from richer families (from whom resources can more easily be extracted). Larger dowries - as well as greater satisfaction with the marriage (in the form of more male children) - reduce the probability of violence.In India marriage is almost never a matter of choice for women, but is driven almost entirely by social norms and parental preferences. Providing opportunities for women outside of marriage and the marriage market would significantly improve their well-being by allowing them to leave an abusive husband, or find a way of bribing him to stop the abuse, or present a credible threat, which has the same effect.This paper - a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to examine crime and violence in developing countries. Vijayendra Rao may be contacted at [email protected].

Author : Francis Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terror as a Bargaining Instrument written by Francis Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pooja Juyal
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
ISBN 13 : 9788973006373
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Studies in India written by Pooja Juyal and published by Ewha Womans University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mangai Natarajan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135196545X
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Violence written by Mangai Natarajan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic Violence is not just a public health and criminal justice problem, it is also an issue of universal human rights that needs immediate and vigorous attention. How we measure the prevalence of Domestic Violence, what we identify as the risk factors, which theories seem to provide most help in understanding and responding to Domestic Violence, which preventive and treatment programs seem most effective and the respective roles of the health and criminal justice systems, are all questions of vital importance in society's response to the problem.

Author : Amrita Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000643743
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social and Legal Regulation of Domestic Violence in The Kesarwani Community written by Amrita Mukhopadhyay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social and legal regulation of domestic violence (DV) within the Kesarwani business community following the enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005. It analyses the existence of the formal law in Kolkata and the relevance of the law in the familial lives of the Kesarwani community. The book offers a new conceptualisation of examining the relationship between formal law and social life. It provides a deep insight into how living with violence becomes a way of living and how the disposition to familial violence exists with social advantage and privilege. Explaining the functioning of the formal DV framework in non-legal terms as it exists on the paper, the book shows the ways in which this one law sought to democratise the family unit and overhaul the legal process in favour of DV victims in India. Most of all it hopes to show through the Kolkata study that caste and class, social structures that regulate and define social life globally, must remain critical to discussions of the social and legal regulation of DV in Kolkata, India or anywhere in the world. The book uses ethnography as a research methodology and traverses different locations in the Kesarwani community, and outside the community in Kolkata, to examine the relevance of the formal law in the lives of Kesarwani women. While the study is in India (and in a non-western context), the theme of the study – the social and legal regulation - remains relevant to contemporary debates on the efficacy of formal law in addressing coercive control in the western world. Notably, the book makes the formal domestic violence law legible for non-legal professionals by explaining the formal legal framework of domestic violence envisaged in the PWDVA. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of law, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, and political science. It will also appeal to social service providers and practitioners working in the area of domestic violence, legal regulation, social control of women, gender, caste, class and family business.

Author : John Devaney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000358461
Total Pages : 895 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse written by John Devaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an important contribution to the international understanding of domestic violence and shares the latest knowledge of what causes and sustains domestic violence between intimate partners, as well as the effectiveness of responses in working with adult and child victims, and those who act abusively towards their partners. Drawing upon a wide range of contemporary research from across the globe, it recognises that domestic violence is both universal, but also shaped by local cultures and contexts. Divided into seven parts: • Introduction. • Theoretical perspectives on domestic violence and abuse. • Domestic violence and abuse across the life-course. • Manifestations of domestic violence and abuse. • Responding to domestic violence and abuse. • Researching domestic violence and abuse. • Concluding thoughts. It will be of interest to all academics and students working in social work, allied health, sociology, criminology and gender studies as well as policy professionals looking for new approaches to the subject.

Author : Tekmal Solmanraj
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Violence in Rural India written by Tekmal Solmanraj and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy, Shalini
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence written by Roy, Shalini and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer programs have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but little evidence exists on how activities linked to transfers affect IPV or what happens when programs end. We assess postprogram impacts on IPV of randomly assigning women in Bangladesh to receive cash or food, with or without nutrition behavior change communication (BCC). Six to 10 months postprogram, IPV did not differ between women receiving transfers and a control group; however, women receiving transfers with BCC experienced 26 percent less physical violence. Evidence on mechanisms suggests sustained effects of BCC on women’s threat points, men’s social costs of violence, and household well-being.