Community Policing Strategies in Prevention of Gender-Based Violence in Babati District Council, Northern Tanzania

Gasper Mpehongwa; Gamaliel Israel Gabriel

doi:10.18535/sshj.v9i02.1636

Abstract

Community Policing Strategies in Prevention of Gender-Based Violence in Babati District Council, Northern Tanzania

Keywords

Community policingstrategygender-based violence

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[refR-5] Beyene, H. A. (2014). GBV and submerged histories: A colonial genealogy of violence against Tutsi women in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Doctoral dissertation, UCLA.Google Scholar ↗

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[refR-10] Karera, R. (2021). Community policing and Gender-based violence mitigation in Rwanda: A case study of Kayonza District (2014-2017. Doctoral dissertation, University of Rwanda.Google Scholar ↗

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[refR-13] Mussa, A. M., (2019). Assessment of Community Policing as a Crime Reduction Strategy by the Police Force in Tanzania: The Case of Zanzibar. A Thesis Submitted in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Open University of TanzaniaGoogle Scholar ↗

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[refR-15] Ngaiza, C., & Omari, A. (2022). Access to Justice by Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls in Tanzania: A Social Legal Perspective. Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I: Legislation, Limitations and Culture,351-379. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75949-0_11DOI ↗Google Scholar ↗

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[refR-19] Warioba, I. (2019). Child marriage in Tanzania: A human rights perspective. The Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development,(23),1-18. https://doi.org/10.31273/LGD.2019.2201DOI ↗Google Scholar ↗

[refR-20] World Health Organization. (2021). Global, regional, and national prevalence estimates for intimate partner violence against women and global and regional prevalence estimates for non-partner sexual violence against women. World Health Organization.Google Scholar ↗

[refR-21] Yamile, N. (2021). Schoolgirls leading their community in dialogue to address gender-based violence. Agenda, 35(1), 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2020.1845458DOI ↗Google Scholar ↗