Stay Home, Stay Safe? Short- and Long-term Consequences of COVID-19 Restrictions on Domestic Violence in the Netherlands

Eichelsheim, Veroni; Coomans, Anne; Schlette, Anniek; Deuren, Sjoukje van; Baak, Carlijn van; Blokland, Arjan; Weijer, Steve van de; Kühling, David

doi:10.1108/s1521-613620230000028005

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“…Consequently, victims may have been less able or inclined to seek professional help, particularly for less severe incidents. Victims were also isolated from friends and family who might have reported on their behalf, although this was compensated somewhat by neighbors, possibly in response to methods that were implemented to increase awareness and encourage reporting of IPA (Coomans et al, 2023;Eichelsheim et al, 2023;Ivandic et al, 2020;Miller et al, 2022;Perez-Vincent et al, 2020).…”

Section: (How) Did Ipa Change During the Pandemic Period?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Partners were, by definition, isolated from external parties who might monitor IPA, both formally-for example, health or social services (Lausi et al, 2021;Pallansch et al, 2022)-and informally-for example, friends and family (Andrade et al, 2022;Canzi et al, 2021;Vergauwen et al, 2022). However, the more continuous presence of neighbors counterbalanced some of the reduction in external monitoring, as evidenced by an increase in third-party calls to IPA services (Coomans et al, 2023;Eichelsheim et al, 2023;Ivandic et al, 2020;Perez-Vincent et al, 2020), potentially amplified by measures encouraging monitoring and reporting.…”

Section: Opportunity Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intimate Partner Abuse and Homicide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Situational Action Theory Analysis

Treiber

2024

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, stay-at-home restrictions significantly changed people’s daily lives around the world. Opportunity and strain theories predict this would lead to an increase in intimate partner abuse (IPA), including intimate partner homicide (IPH). This paper applies an alternative theoretical framework—situational action theory (SAT)—to explain mixed findings regarding changes in IPA and unexpected findings regarding (a lack of) changes in IPH. It is argued that SAT may contribute to explaining the impact of stay-at-home restrictions on IPA and IPH in three important ways: 1. by addressing the fact that motivation is necessary but not sufficient for explaining action and better specifying how motivation translates into IPA and IPH; 2. by addressing the fact that people perceive different alternatives for action and better specifying why some people come to see IPA and IPH as acceptable action alternatives; 3. by addressing the fact that exposure affects people differently and better specifying how stay-at-home restrictions shaped people’s activity fields and, in turn, their perceptions and action choices.

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Section: (How) Did Ipa Change During the Pandemic Period?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Opportunity Theoriesmentioning

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Intimate Partner Abuse and Homicide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Situational Action Theory Analysis

Treiber

2024

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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“…In the Netherlands, some empirical studies have been done in specific subfields, such as studies on the effects of COVID-19-related measures on domestic violence (e.g. Eichelsheim et al, 2023), studies on cybercrime (e.g. Kranenbarg and Weerman, 2022) and, for example, a study on compliance with COVID-19-related rules (Appelman et al, 2021).…”

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“…This shift may have occurred because professionals were less able to monitor families, whereas community awareness increased. According to the authors, lockdowns and related measures may have led neighbours to detect domestic violence more often (Coomans et al, 2022;Eichelsheim et al, 2023). Schlette et al (2023) examined the number of advice, instead of reports, received by the Safe at Home organizations.…”

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The pandemic as a criminological experiment: Crime in the Netherlands during 12 months of COVID-19 measures

Kruisbergen,

Haas,

Moolenaar

et al. 2024

European Journal of Criminology

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COVID-19 caused serious personal and societal damage. It also created, however, a unique natural experiment. How did the pandemic affect crime levels? In this article, we analyse unique empirical data for the Netherlands, covering January 2016–March 2021, to assess if and how crime patterns changed during the first 12 months of COVID-19-related measures. Domestic violence, which was expected to rise, did not increase, nor did distraction burglary. Residential burglary, bicycle theft and pickpocketing, however, decreased considerably, especially during (some of the) weeks when lockdown measures were into force. Online crime rates on the other hand increased. An opportunity theoretical approach regarding crime offers a good explanation for these changes.

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Stay Home, Stay Safe? Short- and Long-term Consequences of COVID-19 Restrictions on Domestic Violence in the Netherlands

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Intimate Partner Abuse and Homicide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Situational Action Theory Analysis

Intimate Partner Abuse and Homicide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Situational Action Theory Analysis

The pandemic as a criminological experiment: Crime in the Netherlands during 12 months of COVID-19 measures

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