Social relationship between the victims and the accused of sexual offence reported in a tertiary care setting of a metro city in India
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2018, Vol 17, Issue 12
Abstract
The incidence of sexual offence against women are increasing all over the world. The factors which predispose a woman to become a victim of these incidences are multiple. Understanding these risk factors is essential to prevent these offences. Among those risk factors, failure to suspect or identify potential perpetrator increase the chance of a woman to become a victim. The social relationship, shared between the victim and the perpetrator before the act of sexual offence are at times misleading and may bar the victim to suspect or identify potential perpetrator. In this background, an Observational Descriptive study was conducted at the Upgraded Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Medical College, Kolkata, for a period of one year to find out the social relationship shared between the accused and the victims prior to the incidence of sexual offence. It has been found in this study that 89% of the victims knew the accused prior to the incidence of sexual offence and in 35% incidences accused were well known to the victim i.e. either they were in the family tree or friend or neighbour. In most of the incidences of sexual offence the accused are not stranger but known to the victims.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Indrani Das, Dr. Kanad Bag
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