Hohl, K and Johnson, KM
(2022).
Responding to the COVID-19 Domestic Abuse Crisis: Developing a Rapid Police Evidence Base, 2020-2021.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Service.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-855463
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.
Data description (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.
| Data creators: |
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| Sponsors: |
Economic and Social Research Council
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| Grant reference: |
ES/V007033/1
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| Topic classification: |
Law, crime and legal systems
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| Keywords: |
CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME PREVENTION, POLICE FORCES
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| Project title: |
Responding to the Covid-19 domestic abuse crisis: developing a rapid police evidence base
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| Grant holders: |
Katrin Hohl
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| Project dates: |
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| 14 June 2020 | 14 December 2021 |
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| Date published: |
17 Feb 2022 14:39
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| Last modified: |
17 Feb 2022 14:39
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| Temporal coverage: |
| From | To |
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| 14 June 2020 | 30 June 2021 |
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| Collection period: |
| Date from: | Date to: |
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| 1 March 2018 | 30 April 2021 |
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| Geographical area: |
England |
| Country: |
United Kingdom |
| Data collection method: |
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. |
| Observation unit: |
Other |
| Kind of data: |
Numeric, Text |
| Type of data: |
Qualitative and mixed methods data |
| Resource language: |
English |
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| Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
Researchers wishing to work with police administrative data from English or Welsh police forces must apply to individual police forces for the data.
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| Notes on 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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| Publisher: |
UK Data Service
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| Last modified: |
17 Feb 2022 14:39
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