TY  - SER
AU  - Walklate, Sandra
AU  - Godfrey, Barry
AU  - Richardson, Jane
TI  - Changes and continuities in police responses to domestic abuse in England and Wales during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’
PY  - 2021///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, 
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - PANDEMICS
KW  - POLICE PROCEDURES
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - UNITED KINGDOM
KW  - ENGLAND
KW  - WALES
N1  - Policing and Society, 2021, Advance online publication, 5 March 2021
N2  - Covid-19 and the associated public health response directing people to stay at home and/or shelter in place generated acute awareness of, and concerns about, the likely impact on violence(s) against women across the globe. Initial reports from support services suggested that such violence increased, and that its impact was more complex. Early evidence of increased demands in relation to domestic abuse on policing was however less clear. This paper, based on findings from a larger project, offers an analysis of the initial responses to domestic abuse by the police and the courts in England and Wales during the initial pandemic lockdown of 2020. These findings are situated within wider debates concerned with the nature and impact of the current organisational structure of policing and suggests that whilst police forces responded both quickly and innovatively in order to maintain a focus on domestic abuse, their capacity to continue in this vein will be limited in the absence of wider structural and organisational change. (Authors' abstract). Record 7142
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1896514
ER  -