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Study title

Responding to the COVID-19 Domestic Abuse Crisis: Developing a Rapid Police Evidence Base, 2020-2021

Creator

Hohl, K, City, University of London
Johnson, K, Durham University

Study number / PID

855463 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-855463 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

The data comprises all domestic abuse flagged crime and incident data recorded in seven English police forces between 1.3.2018 and 30.4.2021 as well as transcripts of semi-structured telephone interviews with 73 frontline officers in four police forces conducted between June 2020 and June 2021. The data sharing agreements between the researchers and the participating police forces do not permit depositing the data.

The project analysed all domestic abuse crimes reported to seven English police services since the start of the pandemic (March 2020) until the end of April 2021. The difference in differences method and data from the two previous years (2018 and 2019) were used to test whether the introduction and lifting of lockdowns had a statistically significant impact on the volume and/or nature of domestic abuse coming to police attention during the pandemic. In addition, 73 officers from four police services were interviewed between June 2020 and June 2021 to triangulate the quantitative results with how officers experienced, made sense of, and responded to domestic abuse as the pandemic unfolded.

Topics

Law, crime and legal systems

Keywords

CRIME VICTIMS (ELSST)CRIME PREVENTION (ELSST)POLICE FORCES2022

Methodology

Data collection period

01/03/2018 - 30/04/2021

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

Other

Universe

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Sampling procedure

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Kind of data

Numeric
Text

Data collection mode

Police administrative data on domestic abuse flagged crime and incident data: the datasets were produced and are owned by the participating forces and shared with the researchers for analysis for the purposes of this project. Officer interviews: convenience sample of officers in four participating police forces. Participants were recruited using a stratified rank and role sampling method, on an opt-in basis, facilitated by the participating police forces. The sample consists of frontline officers (n=32); domestic abuse investigators (n=17); safeguarding (n=8); neighbourhood officers (n=3); contact resolution and control room staff (n=7); senior officers with strategic domestic abuse oversight (domestic abuse leads, n=6). Interviews were recorded and transcribed . Interviews were conducted over the phone and lasted between 20-45 minutes.

Funding information

Grant number

ES/V007033/1

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2022

Terms of data access

The Data Collection only consists of metadata and documentation as the data could not be archived due to legal, ethical or commercial constraints. For further information, please contact the contact person for this data collection.

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