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Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected social life. In efforts to reduce the spread of the virus, countries around the world implemented social restrictions, including social distancing, working from home, and the shuttering of numerous businesses. These social restrictions have also affect...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7683588/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33251086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40163-020-00135-4 |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected social life. In efforts to reduce the spread of the virus, countries around the world implemented social restrictions, including social distancing, working from home, and the shuttering of numerous businesses. These social restrictions have also affected crime rates. In this study, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the frequency of offending (crimes include property, violent, mischief, and miscellaneous) in Queensland, Australia. In particular, we examine this impact across numerous settings, including rural, regional and urban. We measure these shifts across the restriction period, as well as the staged relaxation of these restrictions. In order to measure impact of this period we use structural break tests. In general, we find that criminal offences have significantly decreased during the initial lockdown, but as expected, increased once social restrictions were relaxed. These findings were consistent across Queensland’s districts, save for two areas. We discuss how these findings are important for criminal justice and social service practitioners when operating within an extraordinary event. |
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spelling | pubmed-76835882020-11-24 Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia Andresen, Martin A. Hodgkinson, Tarah Crime Sci Research The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected social life. In efforts to reduce the spread of the virus, countries around the world implemented social restrictions, including social distancing, working from home, and the shuttering of numerous businesses. These social restrictions have also affected crime rates. In this study, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the frequency of offending (crimes include property, violent, mischief, and miscellaneous) in Queensland, Australia. In particular, we examine this impact across numerous settings, including rural, regional and urban. We measure these shifts across the restriction period, as well as the staged relaxation of these restrictions. In order to measure impact of this period we use structural break tests. In general, we find that criminal offences have significantly decreased during the initial lockdown, but as expected, increased once social restrictions were relaxed. These findings were consistent across Queensland’s districts, save for two areas. We discuss how these findings are important for criminal justice and social service practitioners when operating within an extraordinary event. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-11-24 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7683588/ /pubmed/33251086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40163-020-00135-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Andresen, Martin A. Hodgkinson, Tarah Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia |
title | Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia |
title_full | Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia |
title_fullStr | Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia |
title_short | Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia |
title_sort | somehow i always end up alone: covid-19, social isolation and crime in queensland, australia |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7683588/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33251086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40163-020-00135-4 |
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