Sexual Offences Against Children in India - Understanding the Criminal Justice Responses

Sexual Offences Against Children in India examines the evolution of the law pertaining to sexual violence against children, the judicial decisions since the POCSO Act till date with respect to aspects of POCSO Act.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Sexual offences against Children and the POCSO Act 2012
Chapter 2: Criminal Justice Process from the Child Victim's Lens
Chapter 3: Role of police in investigation of sexual offences against children
Chapter 4: Dynamics of trial process in Child Sexual Offence Cases
Chapter 5: Judicial Approach in Cases under the POCSO Act 2012

About the author

Sonali Swetapadma is working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Law, KIIT-DU. She has completed her graduation in B.Com (Management) from Ravenshaw University. Thereafter she completed her LLB (Hons) from Madhusudan Law College and her Masters in Law with specialization in Criminal and Security Law from School of Law, KIIT-DU. Currently, she is also pursuing her Ph.D. on the topic "A critical analysis of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act 2012 (with special reference to Odisha)" in KIIT-DU. She has the experience of working as Field Investigator for Odisha in an ICSSR-sponsored Research Programme "Response to the Offence of Rape by the Criminal Justice System - An Empirical Study in the States of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal."
Paromita Chattoraj is a Professor of Law at the National Law University Odisha (NLUO). She graduated with LLB (Hons) from the Department of Law, University of Calcutta, and completed her LLM, with having specialization in Criminal Law, with a Gold Medal in 2004. She completed her PhD on the subject of Rape Laws in 2013. She worked at the School of Law, KIIT-DU, before joining NLUO. She was a criminal lawyer practising at Calcutta High Court before coming to academics. She had been the recipient of the ICSSR grant in 2013-14 for data Collection in California, USA, for comparative research on Rape Investigation and Prosecution in India and USA. She has been involved with research projects, viz., International Self-Reported Delinquency Project (ISRD-3) from 2012 to 2015 and Major Research Program 2018-20 on Investigation and Trial of Rape cases in the States of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal funded by the ICSSR.

Product details

• Authors: Paromita Chattoraj, Sonali Swetapadma, Sonali (Kiit Swetapadma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032384740
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238474-0
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Medicine, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, International Law, India, Social Work, Regional Studies, Family Law, Legal aspects of criminology, Regional / International studies, Police & security services, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal justice law, Police and security services, Police law & police procedures, Criminology: legal aspects, Police law and police procedures, Medicine and Nursing, Social law and Medical law, Juvenile Criminal Law