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Domestic violence calls for help increased during the pandemic – but the answers haven't gotten any easier

  • Written by Tara N. Richards, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
Domestic violence calls for help increased during the pandemic – but the answers haven't gotten any easierTwo women in late February at a Paterson, N.J. shelter for women who have suffered domestic violence.Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images

Domestic violence rose globally in 2020 – so much so that doctors have called it “a pandemic within a pandemic.”

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