Terror as a bargaining instrument: a case study of dowry violence in rural India

In India, after marriage is over, domestic violence is often used as a negotiation tool to bring out more dowry from his wife's family.

In this article, Bloch and Lao studied the situation in the three villages in southern India. Based on qualitative data and survey data, and using ethnographic magazine evidence, they established uncooperative negotiations and cue models of dowry and domestic violence, and for these survey data these I tested the prediction of the model. They found it:

In women with low dowry and women from wealthy families (where you can more easily access resources) the risk of marital violence will be higher

Higher dowry and higher spouse satisfaction in the form of more boys will reduce the possibility of violence

All aspects of violence are closely related to economic incentives and deserve more attention from economists.

Provide opportunities for women outside the marriage markets and allow you to find a way to "bribe" him to quit your husband or stop abuses and improve happiness

The authors are investigating how domestic violence can be used as a negotiation tool to withdraw a large dowry from spouses' families. The term "dowry violence" does not refer to the payment made at the time of the wedding but represents additional payment requested by the groom's family after marriage. Extra dowry is usually to prevent her husband from systematically hitting his wife. Based on qualitative data and survey data, the author conducted a case study of three villages in South India. Based on ethnographic evidence, they established uncooperative negotiations and cue models for dowry and domestic violence. They tested predictions of these models based on survey data. They found that women with low family dollar dangers are at high risk of violence due to marriage. The same applies to women of wealthy families (from which you can withdraw resources more easily).

A recently married woman may be subject to dowry-related violence as it is economically and socially related to her new husband. In some cases, dowry is used as a threat or hostage type to bring out more property from bride's family. This is seen in the most vulnerable neonates in this situation. Bride families have no choice but to offer more dowry to protect their daughters, as threats and violent cases can lead to dowry crime. High incidence of dowry violence in northern and eastern states of India

Dowry practices are common in South Asia, especially in India, and trigger various forms of violence against women. Bridal burning is a form of violence against women and because she is dissatisfied with the donation provided by the family, the bride is killed at home by her husband or her husband's family. Death of dowry is a phenomenon in which women and girls are killed or committed suicide due to a dowry dispute. Violence by dowry is common in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal. In India alone in 2011, the National Criminal Records Bureau reported deaths from 8,618 dowries, but unofficial data found that these figures are at least 3 times higher.

According to the National Criminal Records Bureau of India, India has the world's number of deaths related to dowry. In 2012, India reported 18,233 deaths of dowry. This means that the bride owes burns every 90 minutes, or the dowry problem causes 1.4 deaths per 100,000 women in India every year. Crime statistics in India are archived on Wayback Machine of Indian government on January 29, 2013. (2011) According to Indian police report in 1996, there were reports of more than 2,500 bridal burns every year. The Indian National Criminal Record Bureau (NCRB) reported that there were about 8,331 cases of deaths due to dowry in India in 2011. The population of India increased by 17.6% over 10 years, while the dowry dowry of 2008 (8172) increased by 14.4% compared to 1998 (7146). The accuracy of these figures has been scrutinized by critics who believe that the number of deaths due to dowry has not been adequately reported.