COVID-19 and Crime: Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Domestic Violence

Abstract

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When “Shelter-in-Place” Isn’t Shelter That’s Safe: A Rapid Analysis of Domestic Violence Case Differences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Stay-at-Home Orders

“…al., 2020; Sediri et. al., 2020; Sharma & Borah, 2020; Stickle & Felson, 2020), as well as forthcoming and working papers (Bullinger, Carr, & Packham, 2020; Davis, Gilbar, & Padilla-Medina, 2020; Leslie & Wilson, 2020; Ravindran & Shah, 2020; Silverio-Murillo, Balmori de la Miyar, & Hoehn-Velasco, 2020). The author is indebted to these scholars for their important contributions in the wake of this study.…”

When “Shelter-in-Place” Isn’t Shelter That’s Safe: a Rapid Analysis of Domestic Violence Case Differences during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Stay-at-Home Orders

“…Since the initial conducting and submission of this study in mid-May 2020, global case totals of COVID-19 have gone up by nearly 1000%, and global deaths have more than quadrupled (Dong et al 2020;Johns Hopkins University 2020). Given the continued seriousness of the pandemic and need for rapid data analysis, the author is delighted to see research on COVID-19 and domestic violence gain further traction in several sincepublished articles (Gebrewahd et al 2020;Mohler et al 2020;Piquero et al 2020;Sediri et al 2020;Sharma and Borah 2020;Stickle and Felson 2020), as well as forthcoming and working papers (Bullinger et al 2020;Davis et al 2020;Leslie and Wilson 2020;Ravindran and Shah 2020;Silverio-Murillo et al 2020). The author is indebted to these scholars for their important contributions in the wake of this study.…”

Six Months In: Pandemic Crime Trends in England and Wales.

“…In recent months, studies have emerged internationally which have helped establish the extent to which crime (or police calls for service) during lockdowns have deviated from expected trends (see Table 1). These contributions have largely featured case study sites in the United States, including San Francisco and Oakland (Shayegh & Malpede, 2020), Los Angeles (Campedelli et al, 2020;Mohler et al, 2020), Detroit (Felson et al, 2020), Indianapolis (Mohler et al, 2020), Dallas (Piquero et al, 2020) and Chicago (Bullinger et al, 2020), although a small number of these have have examined multiple cities simultaneously (Ashby, 2020b(Ashby, , 2020a and nationwide (Hawdon et al, 2020). Although the focus has been in the United States, studies have also been conducted in the United Kingdom (Buil-Gil, Miro-Llinares, et al, 2020;Halford et al, 2020), Australia (Payne & Morgan, 2020a, 2020b, Sweden (Gerell et al, 2020) and Canada (Hodgkinson & Andresen, 2020).…”