INTRODUCTION
This brief highlights emerging evidence of the impact of the recent global pandemic of COVID-19 on violence against women and girls. It makes recommendations to be considered by all sectors of society, from governments to international organizations and to civil society organizations in order to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls, at the onset, during, and after the public health crisis with examples of actions already taken. It also considers the economic impact of the pandemic and its implications for violence against women and girls in the long-term.
It is a living document that draws upon the knowledge and experience of a wide range of experts who support solutions to end violence against women and girls, attentive to the country context in which the crisis is occurring.
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Corrections officers have a host of questions to work through with people preparing for reentry: Where will they live? Do they have a photo ID? Do they have a working phone number? And now: Have they been screened for COVID-19? 

This new checklist provides facilities with a concrete tool to support reentry planning during a pandemic.

Now, more than ever, as communities work to quickly reduce correctional populations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be easy for jails and prisons to miss steps that ensure safety of employees and the people who are returning to their communities. Use this legal-sized checklist as a guide for reentry planning during this critical time.

May 2020 | The Council of State Governments Justice Center, The National Sheriffs' Association

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the ESC Board reunited online today and decided to postpone the EuroCrim2020 Conference in Bucharest to September 2021, due to the global pandemic context.

The following conferences will thus take place as follows:

- 8-11 September 2021: Bucharest, Romania

- 21-24 September 2022: Malaga, Spain

- September 2023: Florence, Italy

Eurocrim 2020 Local Organizers

Faculty of Law

University of Bucharest

www.drept.unibuc.ro  

 A tale of two countries: we assess the potential impact of COVID19 on organized crime in the Korean Peninsula / Joongyoung Hahm and Mark Ronan
South Korea has responded swiftly and decisively, setting in motion a series of medically and technologically effective measures in a comprehensive, ‘all-government’ strategy to contain the coronavirus. By contrast, the peninsula’s communist autocracy, North Korea, in a vein that is consistent with its isolationist stance, has not disclosed how many have been infected with COVID-19 or how it has been countering the spread of the infection.
Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime May 2020
 
A turning point, securitization, and policing in the context of Covid-19: building a new social contract between state and nation? / Clifford Stott, Owen West and Mark Harrison (UK)
A brief analysis of some of the security implications of Covid-19.
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice April 2020
 
Advisory on medical scams related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) / FinCen Advisory (US)
An alert for financial institutions to the rising incidence of medical scams related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
US Treasury May 2020
 
COVID-19 and pretrial detention / Chris Surprenant (US)
While programs connected to public health and the economy will receive the most attention in the coming months, the impact of COVID-19 on America’s criminal justice system, and specifically its approach to pretrial detention, should receive significant attention as well.
SSRN April 2020
 
Fighting COVID-19 misinformation on social media: experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy nudge intervention / Gordon Pennycook, Jonathon McPhetres et al
The COVID-19 pandemic has bred a multitude of falsehoods even as truth has increasingly become a matter of life-and-death. Why do people believe and spread false (and true) news content about COVID-19,and could an intervention intended to increase the truthfulness of the content people share on social media be effective?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology March 2020
 
Lockdown in lock up: Italy’s prison system has been plunged into crisis by the pandemic and the mafia / Serio Nazzaro, Lyes Tagziria and Ruggero Scaturro
The damage caused by the virus, both to public health and the economy, is unprecedented in more than a century. And, as with all national emergencies, the mafia have added to the disruption, and taken advantage of it.
Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime May 2020
 
Minor Covid-19 association with crime in Sweden, a five week follow up / Manne Gerell, Johan Kardell and Johanna Kindgren.
The Covid-19 disease has a large impact on life across the globe, including on crime. This short report describes how crime has changed in Sweden during five weeks after the government started to implement interventions to reduce spread of the disease.
SocArXiv Papers May 2020


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Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, state and local governments were working to minimize criminal justice system involvement for people who don't pose a public safety risk. As communities battle high infection rates in prisons and jails, diverting people with behavioral health needs from correctional facilities to care is even more vital.

And court personnel can play a crucial role in directing people to community-based supports.  

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