Increase Awareness of Women’s Lives in the Criminal Justice System

A Study on Women Detainees and Their Dependent Children in Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

The adjustment in the creation of the jail populace has featured the deficiencies in practically all jail frameworks in gathering the gender-explicit necessities of women detainees. Any cutting edge way to deal with give a more worthy criminal equity strategy for women should focus better on their issues. Specifically there is need to concentrate on the circumstance of women and children in the jail and apply gender viewpoint to arrangements and program for them. In India, a couple of studies worth their name have been directed on jail life of women criminals. This article is result of the significant exploration project subsidized by ICSSR, New Delhi. This examination zeroed in on the women detainee and their reliant children living in the eight focal prison of Madhya Pradesh. The motivation behind the current examination is to distinguish the central points of interest of the issue looked by women detainees and their reliant children in the prison and accumulate the data and thoughts on manners by which these issues could be tended to better. Further the point is to help enactment and policymakers in outlining of arrangements based on comprehension of ground reality.