A Social Work Study on Women Problems and Measures

Characteristics of women who access the call for assistance, as well as the types of violence they face. Over half the women who sought help from the cell did so in the first five years of abuse. For women who had experienced violence for more than five years, the numbers dropped sharply. In nearly 60 per cent of cases, women are reporting violence within joint or extended family households. As noted above, over a third of the women seeking help were involved in paid work. These records include the first report of a crime taken by police, women?s narratives, the testimony of witnesses, and other documentation. Further, access to the records was often slow because individual police personnel needed to use the duplicate records in their ongoing work. Finally, there was often little or no information in them regarding interventions or actual completion of cases, making an analysis of assistance difficult.