Who is most at risk of physical and sexual partner violence and coercive control during the COVID-19 pandemic Hayley Boxall and Anthony Morgan
By: Boxall, Hayley
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Contributor(s): Morgan, Anthony.
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ArticleSeries: Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice.Publisher: Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2021Description: electronic document (19 pages) ; PDF file.ISBN: 978 1 922478 04 7 (Online).Subject(s): ABUSED WOMEN | COERCIVE CONTROL | COVID-19 | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | INTERSECTIONALITY | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | PANDEMICS | PHYSICAL ABUSE | RISK FACTORS | SEXUAL VIOLENCE | SURVEYS | INTERNATIONAL | AUSTRALIAOnline resources: Click here to access online
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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, no. 618, February 2021Summary: In this study, we analysed data from a survey of Australian women (n=9,284) to identify women at the highest risk of physical and sexual violence and coercive control during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Logistic regression modelling identified that specific groups of women were more likely than the general population to have experienced physical and sexual violence in the past three months. These were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women aged 18–24, women with a restrictive health condition, pregnant women and women in financial stress. Similar results were identified for coercive control, and the co-occurrence of both physical/sexual violence and coercive control.
These results show that domestic violence during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic was not evenly distributed across the Australian community, but more likely to occur among particular groups. (Authors' abstract). Record #7041
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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, no. 618, February 2021
In this study, we analysed data from a survey of Australian women (n=9,284) to identify women at the highest risk of physical and sexual violence and coercive control during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Logistic regression modelling identified that specific groups of women were more likely than the general population to have experienced physical and sexual violence in the past three months. These were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women aged 18–24, women with a restrictive health condition, pregnant women and women in financial stress. Similar results were identified for coercive control, and the co-occurrence of both physical/sexual violence and coercive control.
These results show that domestic violence during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic was not evenly distributed across the Australian community, but more likely to occur among particular groups. (Authors' abstract). Record #7041
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