Lalrindiki
Affiliation: Department of Sociology, Mizoram University, India
Email: [email protected]
Abstract: In Mizo society, studies on criminology are rather few, and studies on crimes committed by women are relatively rare compared to studies on male offenders. Considering the statistics from the Prison Department, it is evident that crimes committed by females have increased, but the concern for tackling the issue still seems to be taking a backseat. Women offenders are often victimized, especially in a closed-knit society like the Mizo society. As such, studying this area is crucial to reform and understand the situation of incarcerated women and their overall impact. The subject of female criminality was and still is largely neglected. Once a person has been labelled as a criminal, the person is rarely ever allowed to forget the status. This is the research proposal submitted to the author’s university for her PhD. After a
brief introduction, the paper starts with a detailed review of the literature at hand under theoretical, methodological, and thematic heads, terminating in an analysis of the research gap and rationale for the study. The second section lists out the possible objectives of the Study and the study methodology. The next section highlights the research ethics of such a sensitive type of study. The penultimate section visualizes the limitations of the study. The proposal terminates with the tentative chapterisation.
Keywords: Research Proposal; Incarceration; Women; Convict; Undertrial.