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Article Name :
ABUSE, VIOLENCE AND CRIME AGAINST ELDERLY WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA
Author Name :
Shikha Kumari , Alka Sharma and Tanuj Singh
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ROR-1967
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Abstract :
The cases of abuse against the elderly women are rising fast across India as 50% elders experience abuse, with Women as being more vulnerable with 52% facing abuse as against 48% men (Help Age India report on Elder Abuse in India, 2014). This study is based on case study research approach toexplore qualitatively, the types of violence and the nature of reasons behind the abuse elderly womenface at hand of their family members. Various Cases are collected from newspapers and various secondary sources. The study is conducted through the frame work of feminist and sociological perspe ctive.It has been seen that abusive individual use violence and abuse to gain and maintain power and control during the last years of elderly women making the life of elderly women very complicated..
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