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Battered Woman Syndrome: Prospect of Situating It Within Criminal Law in India
2021
BRICS Law Journal
In patriarchal cultures, like the one prevalent in India, rigid, polarised and hierarchical gender roles work to establish a strong normative relationship between gender and the treatment of offenders committing violent crimes such as homicide. While most of the common law countries have already undergone a social change towards making their criminal laws more gender-sensitive by accommodating the experiences of battered women, the situation in India is quite different. Indian courts have
doi:10.21684/2412-2343-2021-8-4-103-135
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