Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times

Mathieu Deflem is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, USA. His research and teaching interests include law, social control, popular culture, and sociological theory, areas in which he has published widely.

• Introduction: Towards a Criminology of the Pandemic; Mathieu Deflem Part I - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CRIME Chapter 1. The Covid-19 Pandemic, Domestic Abuse, and Human rights; Ronagh McQuigg Chapter 2 .Families Under Confinement: Covid-19 and Domestic Violence; Adan Silverio-Murillo, Jose Balmori de la Miyar, and Lauren Hoehn-Velasco Chapter 3. Domestic Violence During Covid-19: Insights from Guatemala; Laura Iesue, Jenifer González, and Kelly V. Martinez Chapter 4. Stay Home, Stay Safe? Short- and Longer-Term Consequences of Covid-19 Restrictions on Domestic Violence in the Netherlands; Veroni Eichelsheim, Anne Coomans, Anniek Schlette, Sjoukje van Deuren, Carlijn van Baak, Arjan Blokland, Steve van de Weijer, and David Kühling Chapter 5. Crime in the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Case of Israel; Gideon Fishman and Arye RattnerChapter 6. Crime During Covid-19: The Impact on Retail; Ben Stickle, Basia Pietrawska, and Steven K. Aurand Part II - MEDIA AND LAW Chapter 7. Flooding the Zone, Challenging State Secrecy: Newsmaking Criminology in Pandemic Times; Justin Piché and Kevin Walby Chapter 8. Tweeting about Crime in Pandemic Times: U.S. Legacy News Media and Crime Reporting During the Covid-19 Pandemic; Lisa A. Kort-Butler Chapter 9. The Hungarian Legislative Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Challenges to the Rule of Law; Samantha Joy CheesmanChapter 10. Facing the Pandemic: Emergency Legislation in the Covid-19 Era and the Hypothetical Erosion of Democracy; Laura Alessandra Nocera Part III - POLICING Chapter 11. A Model of Police-Public Online Communication: Learning from Policing under Covid-19 Pandemic Conditions; Xiaochen Hu and Nicholas P. Lovrich Chapter 12. Policing Emergencies and Police-Community Relations: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Israel; Gali Perry, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, and Roni Factor Chapter 13. Police Proactivity in an Era of Pandemic and Protest; Scott M. Mourtgos and Ian T. Adams Part IV - CORRECTIONS Chapter 14. Institutional Corrections and Covid-19; Molly Smith and Nancy R. Gartner Chapter 15.No Escape: “Doing Covid-19 Time”; Barbara H. Zaitzow Chapter 16. Participatory Action Research in a Pandemic: Prison Climates During Covid-19; Megan Demarest, Daniel O’Connell, Darryl Chambers, and Christy Visher