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 …

calls to the police and to the hotline. Our results highlight the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic across DV measures …Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of … the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both …

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 …

). Data through June 2020 shows that the pandemic's impact on domestic violence reports varied significantly across countries … and police complaints fell (especially in the first weeks of the pandemic). Significantly distinct patterns are observed … consistent with the pandemic changing the relative incidence of different types of violence and altering the perceived costs of …

We document a reduction in police reporting of domestic violence during shelter-in-place (SIP) orders issued by city … city-specific SIP orders to identify a decrease as high as 11 percent in police reports of domestic violence. Lockdowns … governments in March and April of 2020. Using data from 18 large U.S. city police departments, we exploit the unique timing of …

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 cleanly defined lockdown periods, two distinct lockdowns with meaningful …

, we use national municipal-level crime data from Mexico's National Public Security System. The NPSS reports sexual crimes …, 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 …