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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on gender-based violence homicides in Spain()

Circumstances under COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have reduced the number of gender-based violence homicides in 2020, with a total number of 45, the lowest in the historical statistics. Analysis of these circumstances generated by the lockdown and mobility reduction, together the economical negativ...

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Autores principales: Lorente-Acosta, Miguel, Lorente-Martínez, Miguel, Lorente-Martínez, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8858791/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.remle.2021.08.001
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description Circumstances under COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have reduced the number of gender-based violence homicides in 2020, with a total number of 45, the lowest in the historical statistics. Analysis of these circumstances generated by the lockdown and mobility reduction, together the economical negative impact, has produced an increment of 49,6% in the number of calls to 016 (telephone for victims’ assistance), and a reduction of 14,6% in the complaints of violence during the months of lockdown. This situation reflects a higher control of victims and more difficulties to exit from violence, that has decreased the number of homicides to 4 during these months, the lowest within Spanish statistics. These circumstances are compatible with an increment of risk of aggressions and lethality, factor that can be related with the increment of homicides limited to August, when the mobility and socio-labor opportunities were recovered. The study of the social circumstances originated by the pandemic allows to describe three different patterns in the impact on gender-based violence.
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spelling pubmed-88587912022-02-22 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on gender-based violence homicides in Spain() Lorente-Acosta, Miguel Lorente-Martínez, Miguel Lorente-Martínez, Manuel Spanish Journal of Legal Medicine Special Article Circumstances under COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have reduced the number of gender-based violence homicides in 2020, with a total number of 45, the lowest in the historical statistics. Analysis of these circumstances generated by the lockdown and mobility reduction, together the economical negative impact, has produced an increment of 49,6% in the number of calls to 016 (telephone for victims’ assistance), and a reduction of 14,6% in the complaints of violence during the months of lockdown. This situation reflects a higher control of victims and more difficulties to exit from violence, that has decreased the number of homicides to 4 during these months, the lowest within Spanish statistics. These circumstances are compatible with an increment of risk of aggressions and lethality, factor that can be related with the increment of homicides limited to August, when the mobility and socio-labor opportunities were recovered. The study of the social circumstances originated by the pandemic allows to describe three different patterns in the impact on gender-based violence. Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022 2021-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8858791/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.remle.2021.08.001 Text en © 2021 Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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