Papers in the special issue were presented at five conferences in the After the Pandemic Conference Series, organized …

This study examines how school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the reporting of child maltreatment in … Mexico City. We use a rich panel dataset on incident-level crime reports and victim characteristics and exploit the … pandemic may result in additional cases of child maltreatment, synthetic control and difference-in-differences estimations …

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave … persistent protests and those accompanied by media reports of violence. Furthermore, we find no evidence that urban protests …

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 …

epidemic or worldwide pandemic materialize in the near future, we are likely to see the cause as a variant strain of H3N2 - for …Public health experts have been predicting imminent threat of pandemic influenza. The latest US preparedness plans use … declared the single pandemic threat of concern, such that current preparedness plan also bears the title Avian Flu. A 7 …

The 2005 report of the National Research Council (NRC) on Firearms and Violence recognized that violent crime was … higher in the post-passage period (relative to national crime patterns) for states adopting right-to-carry (RTC) concealed … by Lott and Mustard (LM) and Moody and Marvell (MM) that had previously been offered as evidence of crime-reducing RTC …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …