Thread by @vsirnate

@womangat_ and I have been busy. This is what we have collected as part of @ViolenceLab and the work on collective public violence in India.
thepolisproject.com/gang-rapes-in-…

This is the interactive and annotated map based on geocoded data. Requests for our geocoded data file can be made directly to me.
public.tableau.com/views/Reported…

This is a snapshot of what we could capture based on public reporting of gang rapes in English language newspapers. The actual number of cases is in all likelihood going to be a lot more. But we were able to break down gang rapes by month and location.

The NCRB data gives us annual totals for states and specific districts and metros. What we need is data approximating cases in real time, not data released a year later. So we tried this out to see what we find.

State-wise and month-wise capture of what we recorded, a total of 158 incidents between Jan and Sept 2020.

Thus far, there were 95 cases out of 158 that we could identify where the gang-rape victim was a minor. In some cases we couldn't tell the age based on the reporting.

There is a place for YOU to help us. Please report gang-rape cases from local newspapers in regional languages to us. We have captured very little as compared to what we know if out there. We can translate the articles you send us and capture those incidents in our data.

The motivation behind collecting this data is to see if we could break down an annual reported total by dates/months event locations and build case specific victim and perpetrator profiles.

Basically I wanted to see if there is a better way of tabling rape/gang-rape data which lends itself to analysis and research better than a state or district level total.