A critical analysis on the enforcement of the laws on domestic violence against women in Tanzania

Mwita, A.

dc.creator	Mwita, A.
dc.date	2020-09-11T13:40:34Z
dc.date	2020-09-11T13:40:34Z
dc.date	2020
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-21T10:32:25Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-21T10:32:25Z
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4097
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11192/4097
dc.description	A Compulsory Research Report Submitted to Mzumbe University – Mbeya Campus College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Award of Bachelor Degree of Laws [LL.B] of Mzumbe University
dc.description	This study was conducted to assess the problems associated with enforcement of the law on domestic violence against women in Tanzania was taken as a case study. The research specifically undertaken for the purposes examine the enforcement of the law on domestic violence, to examine the compliance with how women suffer from domestic violence, and to assess the legal consequence for failure to comply with relating laws which protect women in the society. The research was conducted on a sample of 36 respondents, both laymen, Advocates and Magistrates. Tarime was taken as research design to represent other Districts in Tanzania due to limitation of time and financial capacity to collect data from other different region. Both primary and secondary data was used to collect data, interview and questionnaire was used as the method to collect primary data whereby a researcher supplied questionnaire paper to respondent in order to seek data and some of the respondent was interviewed by the researcher himself. Finally the study came with the findings that in urban areas people are aware of domestic violence against women is an offence punished by law. But still there is ignorance of which acts constitute domestic violence against women so according to that the problems still exist, also the researcher found that there is problems on the implementation of laws governing domestic violence against women by authorities concerned hence there are laws governing domestic violence against women but there is poor implementation towards the problem at hand
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Mzumbe University
dc.subject	Laws on domestic violence
dc.subject	Laws on domestic violence against women - Tanzania
dc.title	A critical analysis on the enforcement of the laws on domestic violence against women in Tanzania
dc.type	Thesis