Child Sexual Abuse And Protection Laws In India

Child Sexual Abuse and Protection Laws in India presents in-depth research on the sexual abuse of children in India, the related protection laws and the gaps in current preventive measures. The book includes chapters on the nature of sexual offences theories that explain why they occur, and the laws for regulating the same. It discusses the role of the judiciary and the criminal justice machinery in preventing abuse and cyber sexual crimes targeting children. This book studies the existing legal procedural provisions, regulations with case laws, several new mechanisms to deal with juvenile delinquency, rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, various jurisprudential understandings and judicial analysis of the issue. The book advocates the use of innovative approaches, such as the therapeutic jurisprudential approach, in the sentencing and rehabilitation of juvenile victims and offenders to ensure their physical and psychological well-being. 

Debarati Halder received her LLB, LLM, PhD (Law) degrees from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Karnataka. She is Professor of Law at the Unitedworld School of Law, Karnavati University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. She is the founder of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and founding sec¬retary of South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology. She is the India Chapter Head of International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence. She has published five books and several research articles on cybercrimes against women and law, child sexual abuse and related laws, therapeutic jurisprudence, etc., in reputed national and inter¬national journals, including British Journal of Criminology, International Annals of Criminology, National Law School of India University Journal, etc., with reputed publishers. She is a resourceful person for governmental and other international stakeholders, including National Commission for Women, national and state commissions for protection of child rights, UNICEF, Facebook, etc.