Abstract

REVIEW ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN NASHIK REGION.

S. V. Patil*, J. P. Raut, N. R. Gosavi and S.A. Shinde

Abstract

The present study was carried out from Biology division of Regional Forensic Science Laboratory Nashik, Total 15644 Cases were collected for this study purpose of last five years. 5021 i. e. 32.10% cases were history of crime against woman and children from total received cases. Nashik region which include five districts; those are Ahmednagar, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Nashik. Violence against women represents sexual offences, dowry death, female foeticides, domestic violence and sexual harassment while violence against children represents child abuse, infanticides and sex selective abortion. woman and children constitute about 75% of the global population but they have been socially, economically, physically, psychologically and sexually exploited from time to time.

Keywords: Violence, foeticides, child abuse, spouse, abduction and Eve-teasing.