International Review of Social and Cultural Studies
Vol. 1 No. 4 (2025): December

The Reasons of Excessive Occurrences of Rape in Bangladesh: Examining the Socio-Legal Perspectives and Judicial Loopholes

Md. Shah Jalal (Department of Law, CCN University of Science and Technology, Cumilla, Bangladesh)
Roksana Akther (Department of Law, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh)
Nazmul Hasan Mazumder (Department of Law, CCN University of Science and Technology, Cumilla, Bangladesh)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Jun 2026

Abstract

Rape has become a significant socio-legal challenge in Bangladesh, and its persistent incident despite the present legal remedy needs a critical evaluation of the socio-legal perspectives and judicial lacking indulging to the crime. This study aims to evaluate reasons of excessive rape incidents from socio-legal perspectives by examining the underlying social reasons, legal default, judicial delay, and organizational lacking associated with rape cases in Bangladesh. It employs a qualitative socio-legal research method based on secondary sources like laws and policies, judicial precedent, academic journal, books, human rights reports, and newspaper. In this qualitative research the authors have tried to understand the various factors of excessive rape occurrences in Bangladesh and emphasizes the efficacy of existing legal framework, police investigations systems, forensic limitations, judicial delays, and survivor protection mechanisms regarding rape in Bangladesh. The finding of the study explains that rape in Bangladesh is deeply rooted in survivor blaming culture, economic conditions of sufferer, political interference, lack of organizational accountability, investigation default, lack of forensic facilities, low conviction ratio, secondary victimization of sufferer during legal process, and judicial delay for execution of judgment. It suggests that combating rape in Bangladesh needs an integrated socio-legal approach involving legal reform, organizational accountability, public awareness, survivor protection, avoid unnecessary query to victim, modernization of police investigation and update of forensic and judicial procedures.

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irscs

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Religion Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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