We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

domestic-related calls for service and crime reports of domestic violence assaults from the 18 major US police departments for …, police reports of domestic violence assaults declined significantly during the initial shutdown period. There was no …We empirically investigate the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence using incident-level data on both …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid …-19 pandemic, notwithstanding the famously lasseiz-faire approach taken by the coutry. We investigate the role of … different mediating factors, affected by the pandemic, by the containment policies, or by their economic consequences, and …

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 examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …