Domestic Violence during and after the Lockdown: The Shadow Pandemic
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 10107
Special Issue Editors
Interests: domestic/family violence and abuse; coercive control; institutional violence and secondary victimization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
COVID-19 has significantly affected many aspects of our lives and has had a dramatic effect on a global DVA/ IPV upsurge as well, leading the WHO, alarmingly, to name it the Shadow Pandemic. Being forced to be in the same enclosed place, social isolation, and multiple related stressors, including financial challenges, has led to an increase in abusive behaviours, as well as gender violence and crimes. Indeed, several studies found that pandemic lockdowns had an exacerbating effect on IPV rates worldwide. Similarly, domestic violence support and emergency services experienced a significant increase in calls and requests for help. This caused an additional strain on services already under major stress and with limited capacities and investment. We are looking for contributions from different fields and methodologies addressing new challenges, as well as proposed solutions, related to this dramatic increase in domestic violence rates at a time of further reduced capacity of service providers (health, police, social care, legal advisors, courts, charities, etc.).
Dr. Lisa Chiara Fellin
Prof. Dr. Arlene Louise Vetere
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- domestic violence and abuse
- intimate partner violence
- COVID-19
- pandemic
- shadow pandemic
- gender-based violence
- violence
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