Resumen de Crímenes contra las mujeres en India: evolución temporal de los patrones geográficos de la muerte por dote en Uttar Pradesh
Gonzalo Vicente, Tomás Goicoa Mangado, Paloma Fernandez Rasines, María Dolores Ugarte Martínez
In recent years, there has been a steady escalation in the incidence of crimes against women in India, as documented by the National Crime Records Bureau. The issue of gender-based violence has reached a critical dimension to the extent that the World Health Organization has declared it as a high-impact health concern. Despite the general aware about this matter, there exists a notable dearth of spatiotemporal studies that afford a comprehensive elucidation of the geographical and temporal dynamics underpinning crimes against women. This article endeavors to fill this gap by focusing on an in-depth examination of the evolving geographic distribution of dowry deaths in the districts of Uttar Pradesh spanning the timeframe of 2001 to 2014. The core objective of this research lies in the identification of specific regions characterized by elevated risks and the formulation of hypotheses regarding potential risk factors. Our findings underscore the presence of several districts marked by exceptionally high risks of dowry death incidence. Notably, statistically significant associations are found between dowry deaths, female-to-male ratio, and certain manifestations of general criminality.
