Shashwat Srivastava & Dr. Srijan Mishra
Law Student, BA.LL.B. (Hons), 5th Year, Amity Law School, Amity University, Lucknow; Assistant Professor, Amity Law School, Amity University, Lucknow
Abstract
Domestic violence, encompassing physical, sexual, psychological, and economic abuse within intimate and familial relationships, remains one of the most pressing human rights challenges of the contemporary era. This paper critically examines the relationship between domestic violence and criminal law, tracing the historical evolution of legal responses from the era of marital immunity and coverture doctrine […]