Ms. Priyam Agrawal,
Advocate in Delhi High Court and Mr. Arvind Kumar Singh, Advocate and freelance
legal writer are inviting papers for their edited book on Offences against
Women.
About the Book
Name of the Book:
Book on Offences against Women: Legal, Social, Economical and Political
Dimensions
Special attributes of
Women make them vulnerable and henceforth they are easy prey to crimes. The existing
social fabric of our country and the technicalities of our judicial system
multiplies her pain as a victim. With the advancement in modern age, offences
against Women also changed their shapes however increased consciousness has
also awakened women urging them to fight back against several injustices meted
out to them.
Women comprise almost
half the strength of the country and recent increase in incidents such as
rapes, acid attacks, murders, workplace harassment etc. have necessitated to
bring out the comprehensive change in the society. The authors believe that a
consolidated book on different kinds of Offences against Women, wherein all
possible aspects, nature of offences, procedural safeguards, role of judiciary
and others could be discussed in detail.
Theme
Various offences
against Women and its nature: A Brief Legal Description
The Societal aspects
and Crimes against Women
Offences against
Women and International Laws
The recent gender
crimes and Indian Laws
The interpretation
and understanding of Laws for Offences against Women.
Historical and
Political Journey of Women Laws/Gender laws
Offences against
Women and family laws; Whether Sufficient?
The Role of Media and
Offences against Women
A Study of
Substantive and Procedural Laws for Offences against Women
Cyber Crimes in
respect of Women: the legal Challenges and Solutions
The Advocacy for
Rights Vs Offences against Women
Right to Privacy and
Women.
The Executive
Challenges in Offences against Women
Offences Against
Women: The changing contours of accused and victims and Legal Challenges
Offences against
Women: Conventional and Non –Conventional crimes
Note: The topics
above are not exhaustive and contributors may contribute to topics related to
the theme.
Submission Procedure
Contributors are
invited to submit an abstract of 500 words on or before 5th July 2020 explaining
the topic, methodology and objectives of the proposed writing.
Accepted abstracts
will be notified and final submission should be made on or before 30th
July 2020. All communications should be sent to legalknowledge2020@gmail.com.
Note: There is no
registration and processing fee.
Submission Guidelines
The submission must
not be previously published or currently under review at any other
journal/conference/book etc. and should not be submitted to any other
journal/conference while in process of review with us.
The submission must
be the original work of the authors i.e. shouldn’t be plagiarized and also
should be free from grammatical, spelling and other errors. It must also not
contain any defamatory words.
Publication Guidliness
Contributors please
carefully note and follow the guidelines below as you write. Any manuscript not
meeting these guidelines will be returned to the author(s) for correction,
which may cause significant delays in the publication process.
E-mail the chapter
at legalknowledge2020@gmail.com.
Word Count for the
book chapter- not to exceed 4000 words (excluding footnotes)
Only ORIGINAL
submissions will be accepted for publication. Manuscripts may not have been
previously published or be submitted for publication elsewhere.
Manuscripts should be
submitted in Times New Roman, with font size 12, line spacing 1.5’; justified,
with sufficient margins of 1.5’ to the left and 1.0’ on all sides. Manuscripts
can be in the form of articles. ‘Article’ refers to a comprehensive and
thorough analysis of issues related to the theme.
Co-authorship is
permitted but there can be a maximum of two authors.
Footnotes should be
numbered sequentially in Indian Law Institute Mode of Citation.
The submission must
be the original work of the authors i.e. shouldn’t be plagiarized and also
should be free from grammatical, spelling and other errors. It must also not
contain any defamatory words.
Copyright over the
published material shall vest with publishers.
A separate cover
letter mentioning the name(s) of the author(s), E-mail id, Mobile number, the
title of the manuscript and the name of Institution, shall be sent along with
the submission.
All submissions must
be made in .doc format. No pdf format shall be entertained.
There should be no
mention of the authors’ name or any other identity in the original manuscript.
