ArticleJournal of urban economics2022
Effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence in US cities.
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- Understanding Intimate Partner Violence Through Police Crime Data: Descriptive and Temporal Insights.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of interpersonal violence among Mexican children and adolescents: a national analysis of injury data from public hospitals from 2015 to 2022.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Comprehensive Clustering Analysis and Profiling of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Related Factors across U.S. Counties: Insights for Future Pandemic Responses.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Parental abusiveness experienced in childhood and premarital sexual permissiveness during adolescence.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news.Journal of health economics · 2023Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on police officer activities.Journal of criminal justiceArticle
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Abstract
We empirically investigate the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence using incident-level data on both domestic-related calls for service and crime reports of domestic violence assaults from the 18 major US police departments for which both types of records are available. Although we confirm prior reports of an increase in domestic calls for service at the start of the pandemic, we find that the increase preceded mandatory shutdowns, and there was an incremental decline following the government imposition of restrictions. We also find no evidence that domestic violence crimes increased. Rather, police reports of domestic violence assaults declined significantly during the initial shutdown period. There was no significant change in intimate partner homicides during shutdown months and victimization survey reports of intimate partner violence were lower. Our results fail to support claims that shutdowns increased domestic violence and suggest caution before drawing inference or basing policy solely on data from calls to police.
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