Corresponding Author's : Geeta Aggarwal

Co-Author's : Manisha Bansal, Seema Aggarwal

Abstract :

Crime against women and girls (CAWG) is an issue of utmost concern affecting women from all levels of society. It is the biggest challenge to government and law enforcing agencies. One quick measure to help today's women could be to understand the existing trends and get insights from reported crimes against women. This will help in not only making the society a safer place, preventing repeat of similar incidents in the future, but also, will help victims fight back and bring the propagators of crime to justice. In this paper we attempt to understand the existing trends of violence against women and girls in Indian states using real life data from the National Commission for Women (NCW) for the last twenty-two years. In addition to the overall attempt at improving women's safety through analysis and recommendations, we also aim to find out nuances using advanced statistical tools to recognize variations in crime against women across various Indian states. The insights from recently reported crimes may be used to frame recommendations to narrow down the gaps that lie in the government's social and safety infrastructure and plug them in to prevent crime against women ameliorating the safety of women in our country. We identify the best states to live in for women and identify “hot states” and “hot crimes’ in India. The paper also predicts the crime rate of different crimes in hot states for the next five years.

Keywords :

NCW, linear regression, statistical analysis, Crime data analysis, CAWG

Article Details

Unique Paper ID: 1094

Publication Volume & Issue: VOLUME 3 , ISSUE 4

Page(s): 21-31

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