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Home is not a safe place for everyone: domestic abuse between partners increased during lockdown
30 June 2020
What has happened to the prevalence and nature of domestic abuse during lockdown?
Crime economists Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier collaborated with the Strategic Insights Unit (SIU), from the Metropolitan Police, to answer this question by analysing data from calls to the police and recorded crime in London. Finding the overall level of domestic abuse crimes (not calls) have remained stable when compared against the long-term trend, we observe a considerable shift in the type of abuse.