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En pandemi i pandemin - En studie om kvinnors utsatthet av våld i nära relationer under coronapandemin

Zinkell, David LU and Gerdelius, Niclas LU (2021) RÄSK02 20211
Department of Sociology of Law
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to examine how the covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions around have effected domestic violence against women in Sweden. The year 2020 has been affected hard by the coronavirus spreading throughout the world. Alot of nations applied a lockdown strategy to fight the spread of the virus. Sweden choosed to handle things differently and let the government give out recommendations to the population. The study uses a content analysis on case law from swedish district courts to identify what factors are behind domestic violence during the pandemic. Theories from sociology of law have been used to help understand the underlying factors. The theories cover subjects such as power, gender, social control and situational... (More)
The aim of this paper is to examine how the covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions around have effected domestic violence against women in Sweden. The year 2020 has been affected hard by the coronavirus spreading throughout the world. Alot of nations applied a lockdown strategy to fight the spread of the virus. Sweden choosed to handle things differently and let the government give out recommendations to the population. The study uses a content analysis on case law from swedish district courts to identify what factors are behind domestic violence during the pandemic. Theories from sociology of law have been used to help understand the underlying factors. The theories cover subjects such as power, gender, social control and situational violence. The theories also aims to discuss how power is being maintained within a violent relationship during the pandemic. The conclusion that could be drawn from the study's result was that it is a lot of different factors that have an effect on domestic violence during the pandemic. The most noticeable effect would be the social norm of staying inside that have been created by the restrictions and urgings of the state. The perpetrators' use of power to control the victims have been made easier by these new social norms. (Less)
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author
Zinkell, David LU and Gerdelius, Niclas LU
supervisor
organization
course
RÄSK02 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
covid-19, makt, pandemi, våld i nära relation
language
Swedish
id
9061005
date added to LUP
2021-08-16 10:36:12
date last changed
2021-08-16 10:36:12
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  abstract     = {{The aim of this paper is to examine how the covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions around have effected domestic violence against women in Sweden. The year 2020 has been affected hard by the coronavirus spreading throughout the world. Alot of nations applied a lockdown strategy to fight the spread of the virus. Sweden choosed to handle things differently and let the government give out recommendations to the population. The study uses a content analysis on case law from swedish district courts to identify what factors are behind domestic violence during the pandemic. Theories from sociology of law have been used to help understand the underlying factors. The theories cover subjects such as power, gender, social control and situational violence. The theories also aims to discuss how power is being maintained within a violent relationship during the pandemic. The conclusion that could be drawn from the study's result was that it is a lot of different factors that have an effect on domestic violence during the pandemic. The most noticeable effect would be the social norm of staying inside that have been created by the restrictions and urgings of the state. The perpetrators' use of power to control the victims have been made easier by these new social norms.}},
  author       = {{Zinkell, David and Gerdelius, Niclas}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{En pandemi i pandemin - En studie om kvinnors utsatthet av våld i nära relationer under coronapandemin}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}