A Study on Dowry Deaths in Tamilnadu

Abstract

Dowry is defined as money and other valuables of higher cost, which a woman brings to her husband’s home in the occurrence of marriage. The system of dowry in marriages has been prevailing in our society for a long time. The practice regarded as social curse, which has always been unnoticed. Greediness for money and portrayals of social status as given birth to the social evil called Dowry. It became the deep-root factor of bride suicides and deaths of newly married women. Different communities have different marriage customs, but when comes to subject of dowry no one is exception. All communities conjointly protects the custom and contributing to the heinous crime. The sampling techniques were used for collection of primary data for the present study. Convenient sampling is used to collect the primary information from the respondents. Convenience sampling method is used in this study to collect the samples. When population elements are selected for inclusion in the sample based on access, it is called convenience sampling. The total number of responses collected in the Survey is around 211. Dowry deaths are threat to women welfare and their life stability. The aim of this research is whether the dowry death increases, level of satisfaction of laws, sanctions of punishment by anti dowry laws. The research addresses various stats and practices of dowry. The Indian States following dowry practice in spite of legislating special law. Enforcement of Women and Education of communities would possibly put a bar on the cruel practice