We study the impact of marriages resulting from bride kidnapping on infant birth weight. Bride kidnapping-a form of forced marriage-implies that women are abducted by men and have little choice other than to marry their kidnappers. Given this lack of choice over the spouse, we expect adverse consequences for women in such marriages. Remarkable survey data from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyz...

This study analysed various types of violence in Kaduna state the last one decade; trend area from 2011 to 2021; and examined causes with a view providing information that could guide formulation adequate security measures area. utilized both primary secondary data. A total 300 questionnaires were administered, however, 198 retrieved, giving response rate 65 per cent. Information on was obtaine...

In November 1997, an eight-year-old girl living in Puerto Rico was found to have been abducted by a stranger from her San Diego home nearly seven years earlier, when she was 14 months old.1 Her discovery received much attention in the media, highlighting the facts that abductions by strangers are rare and newsworthy events, and that finding a child who has been missing for so long a time is eve...

This paper examined the problem of kidnapping and its consequences in Nigeria. Kidnapping has potential creating social tension, psychological trauma (mental emotional problems), insecurity, untimely death others society. It been observed identified that is not a new crime Nigeria other countries world. But apparent current growth rate all parts country benefits perpetrators are deriving from t...

Crimes against women are one of India's most serious social issues. Women's status in traditional Indian society is appalling the twenty-first century. Despite existence numerous laws and penalties, rape, murder, dowry deaths, human trafficking, kidnapping, abductions on rise. In 2021, rates lifelong physical or sexual intimate partner violence child marriage were 28.8 percent 27.3 percent, res...