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- Title
Legal Protection and Domestic Violence against Women in Kashmir.
- Authors
Alam, Intikhab; Raja, Abdul Jabbar; Iqbal, Shahid
- Abstract
The present study was conducted to probe out the role of legal protection against domestic violence against women in union council Watala district Bhimber, Azad Kashmir. A sample size of 379 respondents was randomly selected in light of the criteria devised by Sekaran (2003). A comprehensive interview schedule, based on Likert scale was constructed and served for collecting the relevant information. The data was presented in the percentages along with ascertaining the relationship between independent variable namely (legal protection) with the domestic violence against women (Dependent Variable) by indexing and cross tabulating to ascertain the relationship through the application x² -test statistics. The study found that Cases of domestic violence were not reported to police; reporting domestic violence to concerned authorities reduced its occurrence; civil justice system helped women more than the criminal court process. Special courts on domestic violence could reduced and finish domestic violence; Islamic legislation helped women to protect them against domestic violence; Pakistani legal system not provided legal protection to the victims of domestic violence; Pakistani women were not well protected by the laws against domestic violence. There was no satisfactory legislation exist against domestic violence in Pakistan. Easy access to civil and criminal justice system can help women. Special family courts on domestic violence can help reduce domestic violence. Awareness about Islamic family laws should be created through mass media is some of the suggestions to reduce domestic violence against women.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; DOMESTIC violence; VIOLENCE against women
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 4, p110
- ISSN
2074-2738
- Publication type
Article