dc.contributor.author	Sahay, Abhilasha
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-11T14:27:18Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-11T14:27:18Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/423501615214636393/The-Silenced-Women-Can-Public-Activism-Stimulate-Reporting-of-Violence-against-Women
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9566
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35245
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9566
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
dc.subject	CRIME REPORTING
dc.subject	PUBLIC ACTIVISM
dc.subject	GENDER INNOVATION LAB
dc.subject	AFRICA GENDER POLICY
dc.subject	WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
dc.title	The Silenced Women	en
dc.title.subtitle	Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	The Silenced Women: Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women?
okr.date.disclosure	2021-03-08
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-10T09:12:04.467433Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/423501615214636393/The-Silenced-Women-Can-Public-Activism-Stimulate-Reporting-of-Violence-against-Women
okr.guid	423501615214636393
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9566
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b08837e0c2_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	32890938
okr.identifier.report	WPS9566
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/423501615214636393/pdf/The-Silenced-Women-Can-Public-Activism-Stimulate-Reporting-of-Violence-against-Women.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	India
okr.statistics.combined	1642
okr.statistics.dr	423501615214636393
okr.statistics.drstats	1024
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Development
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Social Development
okr.topic	Social Development::Crime and Society
okr.topic	Social Development::Social Cohesion
okr.topic	Social Development::Social Conflict and Violence
okr.unit	Gender Innovation Lab, Africa Region
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