On December 16, 2012, in Delhi, India, a 23-year-old female physiotherapy student was attacked and brutally raped by six men. This horrible crime has had an international response, raising awareness of the increase of sexual assaults in India, as well as the rest of the world. In this essay, I will examine the cause of the Delhi, India rape and its effects on the victim, the perpetrators and Indian society. The reasons for the crime are not fully clear; however, there is some evidence that shows that an already formed gang attacked Jyoti Singh Pandey. Gangs are groups of people who suffer from the effect of diffused responsibility. The perpetrators raped Jyoti Pandey because they thought that they could do it with impunity, manage to commit a crime without any consequences. They were also intoxicated, but this does not diminish their responsibility. When investigating the causes of the rape, it is important to look at the background situation in Indian society. Firstly, the attitude of society towards women is built upon lack of respect. Women do not own their own bodies, because they are regarded as family property. India is governed as a patriarchal society, where domination of men is shown in different ways. Some men utilise some women as commodities. Some men "eve-tease  considering sexual assaults in public to be normal. The cases of violence towards women have doubled in the last 20 years. Furthermore, the discrimination of women begins even before birth. There are more abortions of female foetuses than male ones. "Medical staff are bribed into revealing the sex of the child.  The relatively small number of females in India increased the number of women involved in prostitution or forced marriages. Overall, rights are unequal in the Indian state, which is very weak and does not protect its female citizens properly that indirectly has caused the rape. Jason Burke, British journalist, who is based in New Delhi, suggests "The governance is weak and policing patchy in much of rural India, where 70% of the population live . They attempt to protect women creating special carriages on the underground, where they are separated from men. However, the policing, legal and judicial systems are not well established. There are many corrupt policemen and politicians, who were accused of rape. Corru