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Performance Of Controlling Rape In India: Efficiency Estimates Across States, Shrabanti Maity
Performance Of Controlling Rape In India: Efficiency Estimates Across States, Shrabanti Maity
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper addresses the performance of Indian states in controlling sexual assault or rapeon the basis of the data published bythe National Crime Record Bureau in Indiaon the rape or sexual assault control performances of 28 major Indian states. The relative efficiencies of the states are evaluated by applying stochastic frontier analysis on two decadal periods, ending in 2001 and 2011. Among the Indian states, although Kerala is recognised as the region where women are very progressive, our findings suggest that, unfortunately, the performance of the state in controlling sexual assault is not impressive. On the contrary, Gujaratseems to be …
Performance Of Controlling Rape In India: Efficiency Estimate Across States, Shrabanti Maity
Performance Of Controlling Rape In India: Efficiency Estimate Across States, Shrabanti Maity
Journal of International Women's Studies
This paper addresses the performance of Indian states in controlling sexual assault or rape, on the basis of the data published by National Crime Record Bureau in India, the rape or sexual assault control performances of 28 major Indian states. The relative efficiencies of the states are evaluated by applying stochastic frontier analysis on a two decadal time period, namely, 2001 and 2011. Among the Indian states, although Kerala is recognised as the region where women are very progressive; unfortunately, our findings suggest that the performance of the state in controlling sexual assault is not impressive. On the contrary, Gujarat …