 The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd on victim and third-party reporting of domestic violence to the police in the USYasemin Irvin-Erickson and Auzeen Shariati Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024, vol. 90, issue C Abstract: In our study, we examined the potential short-term and long-term impacts of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd on victim and third-party reporting of DV incidents to the police using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. DV incidents during the pandemic lockdown period between March and May 2020 were positively associated with victim reporting to the police, compared to not reporting. Although, we observed a decrease in victim reporting and third-party reporting of DV incidents in the months following the murder of George Floyd, this decrease was only significant in the fall months of 2020 for third-party reports of DV. DV incidents during the last pandemic period we considered in our study between April 2021 and December 2022 were positively associated with third-party reporting. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings. Keywords: Domestic violence; Intimate partner violence; Pandemic; Covid-19; Reporting; National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:90:y:2024:i:c:s0047235223001125 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102141 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Criminal Justice is currently edited by Matthew DeLisi More articles in Journal of Criminal Justice from Elsevier |
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