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ArticleViolence against women2025

The Sounds of Silence: Making Sense of the Absence of Domestic Violence Victims Help Seeking During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Lotta Agevall Gross, Johanna Thulin, Verner Denvall, Cecilia Kjellgren, Mikael Skillmark

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Article in Violence against women, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Lotta Agevall GrossDepartment of social work, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0463-4014
Johanna ThulinLinnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.
Verner DenvallSchool of social work, Lund university, Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2655-2132
Cecilia KjellgrenLinnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4416-1223
Mikael SkillmarkJönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2319-4034

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increased concern was raised globally at the outbreak of COVID-19 that victims of domestic violence would be even more at risk when isolated with a violent partner and out of reach of support due to restrictions. Swedish staff in violence against women services prepared for increased calls for help. Instead, a worrying silence arose in a time and place of high uncertainty. This article analyzes the narratology of risk, when staff members in violence against women services, reflect upon their accounts, responses, and experiences, during the pandemic. The analysis is based on three themes,

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COVID-19Crime VictimsDomestic ViolenceHelp-Seeking BehaviorAdultFemaleHumansMalePandemicsQualitative ResearchSARS-CoV-2SwedenCOVID-19domestic violencerelational theory of risksocial welfarewomen's shelter

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PMCPMC12414104

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