Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic

Florence Seemungal is a Trinidadian multi-disciplinary researcher and a Research Associate of the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, and an Adjunct Staff, the University of the West Indies Open Campus since 2011 where she delivers an array of courses psychology courses for undergraduates enrolled in the BSc Youth Development Work, BSc Social Work and BSc Psychology degree programs. She is a founder member of the Oxford-Tulane Developmental Justice Network established in 2017 now the Oxford-Maudsley Developmental Justice Consortium. She is a member of the Law and Society Association (USA) and publishes in the field of capital punishment with analyse on domestic homicides and the implementation of the death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago and on death penalty reform in the Caribbean.

• Introduction: Domestic abuse and domestic violdence – A shadow COVID-19 pandemic?PART I1. Goniàxot’e: Stories of fear, silence, and sufferingPertice Moffitt, Rosa Mantla, Rebecca Nash, and Onyx Walker2. Home was never safe: Intimate partner violence and the pandemic in the Arab regionLina AbiRafeh and Rebecca O’Keeffe3. Intimate partner relationships before and during the COVID-19 pandemicAnant Kumar, Pooja, and Sonali Layek4. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teen relationship abuse: Adolescentdevelopment as vulnerability and resourceSarah Bekaert5. IPV-related information seeking in Italy: Lessons from online surveysEbru Şanlıtürk, Selin Köksal, Luca Maria Pesando, and Valentina RotondiPART II6. A pandemic effect or endemic problem? Domestic violence in the Eastern Caribbean and BarbadosFlorence V. Seemungal7. Lessons from Línea 137 in Buenos AiresSantiago M. Perez-Vincent and Enrique Carreras8. ONLINE search insights to map domestic abuse risk: London under lockdownCelia Davies, Andrew Pel, and Chris Simmonds9. Domestic violence and the pandemic in GuyanaAudrey Benn10. An overview of domestic violence (DV) in South AfricaProf. C Bezuidenhout and Prof. M Moen11. New Zealand’s family violence policy and practice during COVID-19 lockdown: 'If that bubble is unsafe you leave'Penny Ehrhardt12. The COVID-19 pandemic impacts on domestic violence in MalaysiaMariny Abdul Ghani, PH.D.13. India’s shadow pandemic: Domestic violence during COVID-19Mitali Nikore, Sonakshi Chaudhry, Manvika Gupta, Jyothi Menon, and Geetika MalhotraPART III14. Nigerian workers and the shadow pandemic in LebanonMarissa Quie15. The duty to protect survivors of gender-based violence in the age of COVID-19: A Miami-Dade County case studyCaroline Bettinger-Lopez, R. Denisse Córdova Montes, and Max Zoberman16. Violence against women and DV in the region of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) during the COVID-19 pandemic: Contextual analysis, lessons learned, and promising practicesGraziella Pavone17. Violence against women in PakistanDr. Mirza Altamish Muhammad Baig, Dr. Sajjad Ali, Dr. Numra Altaf Tunio, and Dr. Naila BaigPART IV18. México: Towards a life free of violenceJudge Norma Sandra Barrones Castillo19. Addressing domestic abuse before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A perspective from within the criminal justice system of England and WalesHer Honour Judge Emma Nott20. Fighting domestic violence in France and Russia: A comparative overviewCharlotte Gunka and Ekaterina Tyagay21. Addressing the impact of COVID-19 on gender-based violence in UgandaMagistrate Caroline Kabugho ByakutagaConclusionAfterwordIndex