Even today in the 21st century India, the psychosocial and cultural environments have innumerable prejudiced traditions and redundant customs: dowry, child marriage, illiteracy, physical and mental violence, etc. The Indian girls because of their secondary status in the society may have low self-esteem and poor psychological well-being. Thus it becomes important to study the psychosocial and cu...

Domestic violence (DV) is reported by 40% of married women in India and associated with substantial morbidity. An operational research definition is therefore needed to enhance understanding of DV epidemiology in India and inform DV interventions and measures. To arrive at a culturally-tailored definition, we aimed to better understand how definitions provided by the World Health Organization a...

This paper investigates how the control and devolution of productive assets are allocated among husband and wife. Theory predicts that bargaining power within marriage depends on the division of assets upon divorce (exit option) and on control over assets during marriage (noncooperative marriage). In empirical applications, bargaining power is typically proxied by variables such as dowry paymen...

Crimes against women have become a global problem, and many governments are striving to curb them. The National Crime Records Bureau indicates that crimes risen substantially. In June, NCW received the most crime complaints in eight months. Indian government is interested finding solution this problem promoting social progress. Each year, reports generate vast amount of data, which collated. Th...

Crimes against women have become a global problem, and many governments are striving to curb them. The National Crime Records Bureau indicates that crimes risen substantially. In June, NCW received the most crime complaints in eight months. Indian government is interested finding solution this problem promoting social progress. Each year, reports generate vast amount of data, which collated. Th...

Over the centuries, young girls from hinterland of Dubrovnik often went to serve in wealthy homes order provide for their basic living needs or sometimes even dowry. The position this female population, which people called - spravljenice, cupe godisnjice, was very unfavorable, although within literature they were presented as activists who fought rights. After legalization Serbian Orthodox Chur...

Violence against women is a common and insidious phenomenon in Bangladesh. The types of violence commonly committed are domestic violence, acid throwing, rape, trafficking and forced prostitution. Domestic violence is the most common form of violence and its prevalence is higher in rural areas. A higher prevalence of verbal abuse than physical abuse by partners has been observed. The reasons me...

Despite its illegality, child marriage occurs throughout the Indian landscape. In her book, Child Marriage in India: Socio-legal and Human Rights Dimensions, Jaya Sagade examines the prevalence of child marriage among India’s various cultures and its impact on the human rights of young women. Sagade asserts that, notwithstanding minimal legislative efforts, the Indian government has not met the...

Police investigations involve determining whether a crime has been committed, and if so what type of crime, who has committed it and whether there is the evidence to charge the perpetrators. Drawing on fieldwork in Delhi and Mumbai, this paper explores how police investigations unfolded in the specific context of women's deaths by burning in India. In particular, it focuses on the use of discre...

Dynamic programming (DP) has long been used to solve optimisation problems. Though sometimes suffering from the curse of dimensionality, DP has a dowry of integrality. Integer programming (IP) often suffers interminable branch and bound, but brings the gift of flexibility. DP tends to be hard to program, but IP allows us to easily write models that are hard to solve. Until recently, DP and IP h...