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040 _aAFVC
100 _aWalklate, Sandra
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245 _aChanges and continuities in police responses to domestic abuse in England and Wales during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’
_cSandra Walklate, Barry Godfrey and Jane Richardson
260 _bTaylor & Francis,
_c2021
500 _aPolicing and Society, 2021, Advance online publication, 5 March 2021
520 _aCovid-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
650 _aCOVID-19
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aPANDEMICS
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650 4 _9445
_aPOLICE PROCEDURES
651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aUNITED KINGDOM
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651 _aENGLAND
_92636
651 _aWALES
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700 _aGodfrey, Barry
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700 _aRichardson, Jane
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773 0 _tPolicing and Society, 2021, Advance online publication, 5 March 2021
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_aPolicing and Society
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1896514
_zDOI: 10.1080/10439463.2021.1896514 (Open access)
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_cARTICLE