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What are the possible underlying causes of the spurt of increased violence against women in public spaces in the last decade?

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  • Challenges of Social Transformation

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A "spurt" is a claim about change over time, and sociology must ask what changed: the behaviour, the counting, or the conversation. Over the decade framed by the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape, all three changed together, and disentangling them is the substance of the answer.

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  • First, the measurement revolution
  • But real changes also occurred
  • Media amplification and its sociological effects
  • What the decade's numbers actually show
  • Conclusion
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