The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?

The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?

Although violence against women is pervasive and can have severe adverse implications, it is considerably underreported. This paper examines whether public activism against such violence can stimulate disclosure of socially sensitive crimes such as...

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Main Author: Sahay, Abhilasha
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
CRIME REPORTING
PUBLIC ACTIVISM
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/423501615214636393/The-Silenced-Women-Can-Public-Activism-Stimulate-Reporting-of-Violence-against-Women
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spelling okr-10986-352452022-09-20T00:10:42Z The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women? Sahay, Abhilasha VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CRIME REPORTING PUBLIC ACTIVISM GENDER INNOVATION LAB AFRICA GENDER POLICY WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS Although violence against women is pervasive and can have severe adverse implications, it is considerably underreported. This paper examines whether public activism against such violence can stimulate disclosure of socially sensitive crimes such as rape and sexual assault. The analysis uses a quasi-experimental setting arising from an infamous gang rape incident that took place on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012. The incident sparked widespread protests demarcating a nationwide ‘social shock’. Exploiting regional variation in exposure to the shock, the analysis finds an increase of 27 percent in reported violence against women after the shock but no change in gender-neutral crimes such as murder, robbery and riots. Additional evidence -- generated from self-compiled high frequency crime data -- suggests that the increase can be attributed to a rise in reporting rather than an increase in occurrence. 2021-03-11T14:27:18Z 2021-03-11T14:27:18Z 2021-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/423501615214636393/The-Silenced-Women-Can-Public-Activism-Stimulate-Reporting-of-Violence-against-Women http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35245 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9566 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa South Asia India
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topic VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
CRIME REPORTING
PUBLIC ACTIVISM
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
spellingShingle VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
CRIME REPORTING
PUBLIC ACTIVISM
GENDER INNOVATION LAB
AFRICA GENDER POLICY
WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
Sahay, Abhilasha
The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?
geographic_facet Africa
South Asia
India
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9566
description Although violence against women is pervasive and can have severe adverse implications, it is considerably underreported. This paper examines whether public activism against such violence can stimulate disclosure of socially sensitive crimes such as rape and sexual assault. The analysis uses a quasi-experimental setting arising from an infamous gang rape incident that took place on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012. The incident sparked widespread protests demarcating a nationwide ‘social shock’. Exploiting regional variation in exposure to the shock, the analysis finds an increase of 27 percent in reported violence against women after the shock but no change in gender-neutral crimes such as murder, robbery and riots. Additional evidence -- generated from self-compiled high frequency crime data -- suggests that the increase can be attributed to a rise in reporting rather than an increase in occurrence.
format Working Paper
author Sahay, Abhilasha
author_facet Sahay, Abhilasha
author_sort Sahay, Abhilasha
title The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?
title_short The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?
title_full The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?
title_fullStr The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?
title_full_unstemmed The Silenced Women : Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?
title_sort silenced women : can public activism stimulate reporting of violence against women?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/423501615214636393/The-Silenced-Women-Can-Public-Activism-Stimulate-Reporting-of-Violence-against-Women
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