Sharma Amalesh, Borah Sourav Bikash
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India.
J Fam Violence. 2022;37(5):759-765. doi: 10.1007/s10896-020-00188-8. Epub 2020 Jul 28.
We intend to identify the links between Covid-19 and domestic violence, expose the potential reasons behind an increase in domestic violence cases due to Covid-19, and argue that rising incidence of domestic violence may lead to economic and social crisis.
This is a brief note in which authors rely on various statistics and insights regarding domestic violence since the detection of Covid-19. Based on the available statistics regarding domestic violence prevalence during previous times of uncertainty, the number and nature of domestic violence incidents around the globe, and existing literature, the authors argue that clear links exist between Covid-19 and domestic violence, which also impacts on the economic and social crisis.
Countries across the world are battling Covid-19 by enacting measures to reduce the speed of transmission. Multiple reports, however, suggest that such measures are increasing the incidence of domestic violence and not only in number but also in severity. We find that layoffs, loss of income, extended domestic stays, and exposure to habits due to stay-at-home orders are driving up the incidence of domestic violence. Moreover, these domestic violence increases are driving economic and social crises due to the form and severity of the violence, the burden placed on government, a crisis of resources, and decreases in the productivity of workforces.
Domestic violence increase resulting from Covid-19 is an indirect driver of economic and social crisis. This brief note proposes certain policy changes and strategies required to reduce domestic violence incidence during this turbulent time.
我们旨在确定新冠疫情与家庭暴力之间的联系，揭示因新冠疫情导致家庭暴力案件增加的潜在原因，并论证家庭暴力发生率的上升可能引发经济和社会危机。
这是一篇简短的笔记，作者依据自新冠疫情发现以来有关家庭暴力的各种统计数据和见解展开论述。基于以往不确定时期家庭暴力患病率的现有统计数据、全球家庭暴力事件的数量和性质以及现有文献，作者认为新冠疫情与家庭暴力之间存在明确的联系，这也对经济和社会危机产生影响。
世界各国正在通过采取措施降低传播速度来抗击新冠疫情。然而，多份报告表明，这些措施不仅在数量上而且在严重程度上都在增加家庭暴力的发生率。我们发现，裁员、收入损失、居家时间延长以及因居家令而暴露的习惯正在推高家庭暴力的发生率。此外，由于暴力的形式和严重程度、给政府带来的负担、资源危机以及劳动力生产率的下降，这些家庭暴力的增加正在引发经济和社会危机。
新冠疫情导致的家庭暴力增加是经济和社会危机的间接驱动因素。这篇简短的笔记提出了在这个动荡时期减少家庭暴力发生率所需的某些政策变革和策略。
