Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research: Volume 15 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Roxanne Khan

Editorial

Nicole Jacobs

The “epidemic within the pandemic”: meeting the needs of racially minoritised women experiencing domestic abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic

Severyna Magill

In March 2020, the UK entered its first lockdown responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the same month, the Domestic Abuse Bill had its first reading in Parliament. Charities and…

Reviewing in a pandemic? A commentary on COVID-19 and domestic homicide review

James Rowlands

This paper is a commentary on COVID-19’s impact on Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs), the system in England and Wales that enables learning from domestic abuse-related deaths.

“We adapted because we had to”: how domestic violence perpetrator programmes adapted to work under COVID-19 in the UK, the USA and Australia

Rosanna Bellini, Nicole Westmarland

This study explores responses by domestic violence perpetrator programme (DVPP) providers of three Western countries (UK, USA and Australia) to the COVID-19 pandemic and…

Responding to gender-based violence in higher education: changes as a function of Covid-19

Peta Franklin-Corben, Graham Towl

The purpose of this paper is to comment on how responses to gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education (HE) changed as a function of COVID-19. Since the original lockdown…

Female genital mutilation (FGM) trauma and mental health support during the UK lockdown: exploring women’s experiences

Peggy Mulongo, Roxanne Khan, Susan McAndrew, Michael McKeown

The purpose of this study is to report findings from interviews with seven African-heritage women attending a female genital mutilation (FGM) Clinic in the north of England…

The impact of COVID-19 on women and children in the UK who were victims of domestic abuse: a practitioner perspective

Charlotte Proudman, Ffion Lloyd

This study aims to explore the impact of COVID-19 on women and children in the UK who were victims of domestic abuse.