Abstract
This paper aims to explore educated people's perception regarding different social, legal and
institutional causes of long persistence of crime against women in Pakistan. It further intends
to explore the association between the perceptions regarding patriarchy (defined as domination
of men over women in all aspects of life) with perceptions regarding other identified causes
of crime against women in Pakistan. The research is based on data collected through a
questionnaire based survey. The collected data was statistically analyzed and the results were
shown in the form of tables. The causes of persisting crime against women explored in this
research for investigating the patterns of perceptions among educated people include patriarchy
(male domination), anti women social practices, women's segregation in home, unfavourable
attitude of police towards women victims, practice of not reporting the crime committed
against women to police, insufficient laws, marginal number of women in parliament, and
lack of education and awareness among women. Majority of the respondents agree that these
all factors are responsible for long persistence of crime against women in Pakistan. It was
found that educated people's perception regarding patriarchy (as a source of crime against
women) is significantly associated with their perception regarding all other reasons of the
crime against women identified here.
Dr. Naima Tabassum Syed, Tabassum Afzal, Huma Tabassum. (2015) Educated people's perceptions regarding causes of persisting crime against women in Pakistani society, Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics, Volume-13, Issue-1.
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