Post-Separation Attitude Towards Domestic Abuses: A study of Domestic Violence Victims in Tinsukia District, Assam

Victims of domestic violence perceive different perspectives on the abuses they experience in their marital relationships. It is also seen that despite reporting a case, a victim may want to go back to the abuser or may suffer from post-separation abuses. This paper simply tries to explore the attitude of victims after reporting the crime towards domestic violence. We address two issues to analyze the post-separation attitude of the victims. First, to trace out the factors that motivates a domestic violence victim to report the crime. Secondly, even after reporting, why do they want to go back to the abuser? The study found that some of the victims still need their marital families back and want just minimal punishment for their abusers. Apart from that some of them are facing post-separation abuses. These all together represent a victim's attitude towards the domestic abuse they encountered during their stay in the marital home. A narrative approach has been adopted to analyze these issues.