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How police reforms improved the way officers treat women in India

Largest-ever trial of police responses finds stations with women’s help desks record more intimate-partner crimes.
  1. Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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Police in India are more likely to register crimes reported by women in stations with dedicated women’s help desks than in those without. And help desks staffed by female officers record more crimes against women that result in mandatory criminal investigations. These results come from the largest-ever randomized controlled trial of police reforms, published this week in Science1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01857-y

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