Violence Against Women During Coronavirus: When Staying Home Isn't Safe

by Naomi Pfitzner, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate

This open access book brings together leading international violence researchers to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on experiences of, and responses to, domestic and family violence. In April 2020 the United Nations predicted that for every three months the COVID-19 lockdowns continued an additional 15 million cases of domestic violence would occur worldwide, termed the "shadow pandemic". Drawing on empirical work situated within an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303129355X
• ISBN13: 9783031293559
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"