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This article is designed to determine the pervasiveness, and regularity of wife battering in Bangladesh. The effects of socio-economic status, education and legal status were also investigated. The surveys were conducted on two districts of Bangladesh. Questionnaire survey of 400 randomly chosen Bangladeshi women was undertaken in these districts. Wife abuse was found to be prevalent in Bangladesh, and education and occupation were found to influence the prevalence. As wife battering has been found to be ubiquitous in Bangladesh, more research is required to recognize the causes and the psychological effects on these women. This information will be very useful for designing appropriate legal framework to provide proper remedy for the victims of spouse battering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regardless of the increased acknowledgment that the issue of marital rape has generated in the past few years, the literature in this area remains sparse. Forcing sexual intercourse on an unwilling marital partner, or marital rape, is not a crime in many societies around the world, because of a marital exemption rule that prohibits the prosecution of husbands who rape their wives. Concurrently, marital rape is one of the least studied phenomena in sexual violence research. This article presents a comprehensive review of the current state of the Marital Rape in Bangladesh as sexual violence in heterosexual marriage is not uncommon in this country. In Bangladesh, husbands were exempted from prosecution for raping their wives. Marital rape is seldom given the legitimacy or validity as other forms of sexual violence, but it can be degrading. What sets marital rape apart is that the victim has to live with her rapist. Marital rape is the focus of this article. This review highlights the seriousness of marital rape, in terms of prevalence and post trauma distress, as well as the limitations of extant research. The first part of the article is designed to cover the issues relating to basics of marital rape. The second segment briefly discusses reasons for which marital rape is not be criminalised. The third part of this article emphasises on the judicial precedents that are relevant to marital rape. The fourth part of the article intends to cover the issues relating to marital rape laws in Bangladesh. The fifth segment is dedicated to the evaluation of statistical data gathered from quantitative research on marital rape in Bangladesh. Doctrinal method of research is applied in this paper encapsulating qualitative method of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]