Crime Against Women in India: Statistical Analysis Using Linear Regression

The crime reports of offenses occurring against women all over India are increasing day by day. It has become one of today's most concerning socio-economic and cultural issues. Crime against women hampers the overall prosperity and development of the nation. This crime violates human rights, impacts women's physical and mental health, and becomes an educational barrier to women's empowerment. This paper surveys the reasons for the influence of reported Crime Against Women (CAW) in 35 states and union territories in India from 2001–2012. The dataset describes different types of Crime Against Women (CAW): rape, kidnapping, abduction, assault on women, insult to the modesty of women, cruelty by husband or relative. This paper also contains a report on the arrested rate for crimes against women in India from 2001–2012. According to the comparison between these two datasets, the person arrest rate is more than the crime against women rate in every state in India. We used machine learning-based linear regression analysis to format the relationship between two datasets, where crime against women is the dependent variable and people arrested rate is the independent variable. This paper discusses two types of linear regression: Simple Linear Regression and Multiple Linear Regression. The relation between these two datasets helps to predict the hot location of crimes, and the activeness of law enforcement regarding the crimes and encourages victims to take action. For the datasets, P-values, R-squared, and adjusted R-squared values are used to evaluate the statistically significant prediction in explaining the variation in crime rates. This prediction is used to reduce the rate of crime against women all over India.