IOSR Journal of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 25, Issue 10, Series 7 (October. 2020) 15-22 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org Understanding crimes against women: with special reference to Assam Sanjay Barman Assistant Professor Goalpara College, Goalpara. Abstract: Crimes against women is one of the most serious issue as we have been seen for a long period of time. India, the world's largest democratic country in which half of the population is compromised with the women, where 1/3 women have been still suffering from various forms of crime. Crimes against women don't only effect the life of a particular woman, but it also effects the whole family as well as the whole nation. It takes a dismaying variety of forms, from domestic abuse and child marriage to rape and female infanticide. Crimes against women is usually unreported in society because of fear and stigma that often presents women from reporting incidents of crimes. Keywords: crimes, democratic, nation, domestic, abuse, child marriage, rape female infanticide, stigma etc. Date of Submission: 07-10-2020 Date of Acceptance: 22-10-2020 I. Introduction :- Crimes against women isn't just a regional problem, now it becomes an issue of global concern. So, crimes against women in Assam as well as in India are a widespread problem that reflects the distribution of unequal-dominant power between men and women where men play the superior role and women are remained as inferior. In the era of digital India, it is very hard to accept that violence against women is still prevailing in every aspects of society i.e. social, political, economic & cultural and it is continues to prevail in India also. As a result of gender bias , women are usually viewed as inferior, family's burdens, dowry burdens and have lower social status in every grounds of society as compared to men. This dominant cultural system has made them socially , politically and economically isolated and they have to remain as deprived from the socio- economic opportunities and legal provisions in society. Unfortunately, crimes against women is a very pathetic phenomenon that exists into society in various forms of violence. We can classify this various forms of violence into 5 types as mentioned by the prominent social thinker, Ram Ahuja which are - 1) sexual violence, 2) abduction and kidnapping 3) bridge burning 4) wife battering 5) murder. In this regard, a question must arise that why does crime take place in society. The most important reasons behind crimes against women are poverty, lack of education, to preserve the patriarchal system in a radical way, demands of dowry, personal jealousy etc. However, a few years ago, crimes against women was a domestic issue in nature and it is limited within the home itself or at the entire village or a community. Sociologists and many academicians have demanded that it was only the late 17th and early 18th centuries, violence against women became an issue of global concern. Although Globalization, Modernization and Liberal democratic education system have been helping women in