| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 评论 |
| Sparking the #MeToo revolution in India: Delhi’s ‘Nirbhaya’ case | |
| Aparna Mathur; Akshay Bhatnagar; Abdul Munasib; Devesh Roy | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-04-29 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | On 16 December 2012, a 23-year-old female was beaten and gang raped by six men in a moving bus in a middle-class South Delhi neighbourhood in India. After the attack, she was thrown out on to the roadside, and 13 days later, she succumbed to her injuries. Crimes against women are so common in India that the 2018 Thomson Reuters Foundation poll finds India to be the most dangerous country for women. Yet this particular incident shocked the country. Both national and international media covered the rape extensively, and it faced worldwide condemnation. People in Delhi took to the streets demanding swift justice for the deceased victim, and urgent action to guarantee safety for women in the city. The rape victim is now remembered as ‘Nirbhaya’, meaning fearless, for her resistance against the perpetrators and the 13-day fight for life after sustaining the injuries. The Nirbhaya case and the events that followed constitute an exogenous (external) shock. The unprecedented media coverage of the case, the widespread sympathy and the scale of public uproar following this gruesome crime, may have emboldened victims to come forward and demand justice. In recent research (Mathur et al. 2019), we ask the question: Did this incident lead to a significant change in reporting of crimes against women in Delhi vis-à-vis other jurisdictions? Our hypothesis is that, following the Nirbhaya case, in the short to medium term victims of such abuse were more likely to come forward and report these crimes. We employ the ‘synthetic control method’ (SCM) (explained below) to estimate the causal impact of the 2012 Nirbhaya case on reporting of crimes against women in Delhi. Based on the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, our SCM estimates show that, in Delhi, the 2012 Nirbhaya case had a positive and significant impact on the reporting of crimes against women. From 2013 to 2015, the annual average reporting of rape cases in Delhi was 23% higher compared with that in the pre-intervention period (2001-2011) (where the ‘intervention’ refers to the occurrence of the Nirbhaya rape case); average annual reporting of molestation and sexual harassment over the period 2013-2015 was 40% higher compared with its pre-intervention annual average. Read the full article here. |
| 主题 | Economics |
| 标签 | Crime ; gender differences ; India |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/sparking-the-metoo-revolution-in-india-delhis-nirbhaya-case/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/265775 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Aparna Mathur,Akshay Bhatnagar,Abdul Munasib,等. Sparking the #MeToo revolution in India: Delhi’s ‘Nirbhaya’ case. 2019. |
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