Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 … lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reflect a low reporting … daily data on DV crimes recorded by the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), we propose a method for generating a …

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 …

We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence … to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January …-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early spike in police calls disappears around mid-April, coinciding with the …

Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the … crucial given growing police mistrust and vulnerability to crime among immigrants. … Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U …

Domestic violence remains a serious public problem, especially in Hispanic communities, where one in three women are … victims of domestic violence in their lifetimes. Yet, less than 50 percent of Hispanic women report the incidents, indicating … lack of confidence in the police and fear they might be asked about their immigration status or that of relatives and …

of the domestic violence problem during periods of crisis than traditional, police-recorded crime measures. Analyzing the …We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based … COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London, we find a 40 percent peak increase in our internet search-based domestic violence index …

decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest. …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …

decriminalization of domestic violence and suggest the optimal police response is to lower the threshold for arrest. …There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a … assignment of officers to a case by call handlers, combined with systematic differences across police officers in their …