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
Two women in late February at a Paterson, N.J. shelter for women who have suffered domestic violence.Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty ImagesDomestic violence rose globally in 2020 – so much so that doctors have called it “a pandemic within a pandemic.”
The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice, a team of national experts...