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COVID-19 and ending violence against women and girls. UN Women. 2020:

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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The CSG Justice Center: Preparing for Reentry in a Pandemic: A Checklist for Correctional Facilities

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

COVID Mental Health substance addiction

CriminologyTV Update - Domestic violence offending and reoffending in Australia

CriminologyTV update


New video on domestic violence offending and reoffending in Australia now available on CriminologyTV

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released the video of our recent seminar Domestic violence offending and reoffending in Australia. The presentation, by Principal Research Analyst Hayley Boxall, outlines the findings from more than three years of research conducted by the AIC.

The presentation covers what we know about the characteristics of domestic violence offenders and incidents reported to the police, as well as patterns of domestic violence offending and reoffending in Australia.

This is an important resource for policy makers, law enforcement and others working to reduce domestic violence.

The video is now available on the AIC’s dedicated Youtube channel, CriminologyTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhg3XuUiHgk

 

View the latest COVID-19 crime and justice items collected by the AIC library.

View the latest COVID-19 crime and justice items collected by the AIC library.


An alcohol ad every 35 seconds. A snapshot of how the alcohol industry is using a global pandemic as a marketing opportunity. / FARE
This report provides a snapshot of the quantity of alcohol marketing on social media on a Friday night, and how alcohol brands and liquor retailers are marketing their products during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Foundation for Alcohol Research & Education (FARE) May 2020
 
Australia’s COVIDSafe App: An experiment in surveillance, trust and law  / Graham Greenleaf, Katherine Kemp
‘COVIDSafe’, was released on 26 April 2020 for public download and in the first few days since its launch nearly 3 million Australian’s have downloaded the app. This article analyses the steps that Australian governments need to take if public trust is to be justified, and aims to make a constructive contribution to the development of better legislation and greater transparency.
University of NSW Research Series April 2020
 
Changes in online gambling during the COVID-19 pandemic /Rick Brown and Amelia Hickman
This study explores the potential for increased online gambling as a result of COVID-19 social distancing measures. Questions were included in an omnibus survey employing an online panel sample, with data collected in early April 2020.
Australian Institute of Criminology May 2020
 
Coronavirus and crime: social distancing, lockdown and the mobility elasticity of crime / Eric Halford, Anthony Dixon et al
Governments around the world restricted movement of people, using social distancing and lockdowns, to help stem the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We examine the effect of restricted mobility on crime for one UK police force area.
SocArXiv papers May 2020
 
COVID-19 and Social Distancing Measures in Queensland Australia Are Associated with Short-Term Decreases in Recorded Violent Crime / Jason Payne, Anthony Morgan and Alex Piquero
Unprecedented domestic and international travel restrictions as well as stay-at-home and social distancing regulations have been adopted across the world. Whether these policies have altered criminal activity is an important question.
SOCArXiv May 2020
 
COVID-19 Daily Update /RISKIQ
Sign up to receive daily updates around COVID-19 and its impacts on cities, neighborhoods, schools, and businesses as well as other essential cyber threat data that helps raise the situational awareness of both physical and cybersecurity teams.
RISKIQ 2020
 
Current COVID-19 scams / Scamwatch ACCC
Scammers are using the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) to take advantage of people across Australia. This webpage lists the different types of scams currently circulating.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 2020
 
Family harm: evidence based command information for Police Leaders / Societies of Evidence Based Policing
A world first collaboration of SEBP’s has seen police officers and staff, researchers and supporters of Evidence Based Policing from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, America and Canada come together to look at policing challenges that impact across the globe. This first collaboration looks at family harm.
Society of Evidence Based Policing May 2020
 
Pandemic profiteering: how criminals exploit the COIVD-19 crisis /
The report provides an overview of how criminals adapt their misdeeds to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Europol March 2020
 
'Terroristic Threats' and COVID-19: a guide for the perplexed / Chad Flanders, Courtney Federico et al
This paper examines a “terrorist threat” in the context of those threatening to spread the COVID-19 virus.
SSRN May 2020


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View the latest COVID-19 crime and justice items collected by the AIC library.

View the latest COVID-19 crime and justice items collected by the AIC library.

 
Coronavirus: crime cartels helping communities will extract a high price in years to come / Matteo Pazzona
Governments of countries where mafias operate must not only deal with the coronavirus but also limit the advancement of these groups and their activities.
The Conversation May 2020
 
Courts mediation and COVID-19 / Tania Sourdin and John Zeleznikow
The COVID19 pandemic is requiring lawyers, courts, judges and others involved in the justice system (such as Alternative Dispute Resolution (‘ADR’)practitioners) to reassess how they operate in a rapidly changing environment. They are being required to use technology to operate remotely and to make use of technological tools that often are not constructed to support the needs of those working in the justice sector.
SSRN May 2020
 
COVID-19 racism is making kids sick /Naomi Priest et al
Racism and racial discrimination are everyday experiences for many Australian children and adolescents. The spread of COVID-19 has meant children and adolescents of Asian appearance and children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are experiencing increased racial discrimination.
Medical Journal of Australia May 2020
 
COVID-19 resources for law enforcement/ Police Foundation
The National Police Foundation (US) has launched a real-time Covid-19 law enforcement impact situational awareness dashboard to help law enforcement leaders better assess and monitor the impacts of the virus.
Police Foundation April 2020
 
Crisis and opportunity: impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on illicit drug markets / Jason Eligh
This policy brief offers observations on the current and likely future drug market impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic. There is discussion of policy-response measures as we draw closer to the inevitable post-pandemic recovery period of stock taking and reflection.
Global Initiative May 2020
 
Modeling COVID-19 and its impacts on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, 2020 / Michael Irvine, Daniel Coombs et al
Preventing the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the US may necessitate intervention measures such as granting ICE detainees widespread release from an unsafe environment by returning them to the community.
Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. May 2020
 
Smuggling in the time of Covid-19: the impact of the pandemic on human smuggling dynamics and migrant protection /Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo
it is key to monitor and mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on migrants and refugees throughout the pandemic. This will avoid a dramatically more severe migrant crisis and a more lucrative smuggling market in the future.
Global Initiative April 2020


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EUROCRIM 2020 Conference in Bucharest to September 2021

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  

View the latest COVID-19 crime and justice items collected by the AIC library

 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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The Critical Role of Courts in Diverting People to Care

Copyright © 2020 The Council of State Governments Justice Center

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.  

Read on >