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Violence, coercion and access to justice
Violence, boycott, police inaction, procedural failure, and weak remedies enforce caste hierarchy and deter assertion.
This mechanism spine is a research hypothesis supplied by the package and must be tested expression by expression.
10 expressions
- Atrocities against Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities ind-caste-051
- Sexual violence against Dalit and Adivasi women and girls ind-caste-052
- Caste-based social and economic boycotts ind-caste-053
- Collective punishment and retaliatory attacks on settlements or families ind-caste-054
- Violence arising from land claims, wage demands, political participation or social assertion ind-caste-055
- Refusal or delay in FIR registration and misclassification of offences ind-caste-056
- Investigation quality, evidence preservation and charge-sheet delays ind-caste-057
- Bail, prosecution, trial delay, conviction and sentencing outcomes ind-caste-058
- Witness intimidation, victim compensation and rehabilitation failures ind-caste-059
- Custodial violence, prison discrimination and unequal legal aid ind-caste-060