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Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of …
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This article examines changes in the frequency and characteristics of domestic violence reports after the start of the … sources: calls to domestic violence hotlines (for the City of Buenos Aires in Argentina, Colombia, and Peru); calls to …). Data through June 2020 shows that the pandemic's impact on domestic violence reports varied significantly across countries …
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence in 11 countries with different ex-ante incidence of … domestic violence (DV) and lockdown intensity. We use a novel measure of DV incidents that allows us to make cross …
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Globally, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has sparked unexpected and violent outbursts against doctors …, nurses, and other health personnel. In the Indian context, studies on violence against doctors and other medical staff … violence against medical personnel partly, we argue that it is largely rooted in a lack of trust in doctors and hospitals …
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exercising of state power and structural violence that has created a weak health system which cannot rapidly restructure and …
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We use seasonal ARIMA methods to study the imposition and removal of national uniform social distancing restrictions in response to Covid-19 in New Zealand for six crime types in six cities. We then use the estimated models to forecast counterfactual crime trajectories. Novel elements include...
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, lapses in alimony, domestic violence, and femicides. Using the NPSS, we track monthly changes in crimes targeting women using … an event-study design. Our results show that lapses in alimony, sexual crimes, and domestic violence follow a U …
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, Mexico.Methods: Mexico City’s Attorney General’s Office reported crime data, covering domestic violence, burglary, robbery … to domestic violence, burglary, and vehicle theft; a decrease during some weeks on crimes related to assaultbattery and …
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Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of...
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The COVID-19 crisis has been accompanied by an extensive use of indicators, such as those related to COVID infections and deaths but also a good number of COVID policy indicators. This paper discusses these indicators from the perspective of a legal scholar with an interest (and some expertise)...
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