Who is most at risk of physical and sexual partner violence and coercive control during the COVID-19 pandemic
Boxall, Hayley
Who is most at risk of physical and sexual partner violence and coercive control during the COVID-19 pandemic Hayley Boxall and Anthony Morgan - Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2021 - electronic document (19 pages) ; PDF file - Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice .
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
978 1 922478 04 7 (Online)
ABUSED WOMEN
COERCIVE CONTROL
COVID-19
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTERSECTIONALITY
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PANDEMICS
PHYSICAL ABUSE
RISK FACTORS
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
SURVEYS
INTERNATIONAL
AUSTRALIA
Who is most at risk of physical and sexual partner violence and coercive control during the COVID-19 pandemic Hayley Boxall and Anthony Morgan - Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2021 - electronic document (19 pages) ; PDF file - Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice .
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
978 1 922478 04 7 (Online)
ABUSED WOMEN
COERCIVE CONTROL
COVID-19
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INTERSECTIONALITY
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PANDEMICS
PHYSICAL ABUSE
RISK FACTORS
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
SURVEYS
INTERNATIONAL
AUSTRALIA