RT Article
T1 Femicide and COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Situation in Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Slovenia
JF Journal of contemporary criminal justice
VO 40
IS 2
SP 364
OP 381
A1 Hacin, Rok
A2 Meško, Gorazd 1965-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1887855629
AB Government measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 affected crime opportunities and criminal justice systems, resulting in changes in crime trends. This article explores the effects of restrictions (lockdowns) on the number of femicides. The monthly data on femicides from 2017 to 2021 were collected in five Central and South-eastern European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Slovenia. The total number of femicides from 2017 to 2021 decreased in all observed countries. Increases were detected in Croatia and Slovenia in 2020. However, they presented an exception to the general trend. The monthly distribution of femicides showed that there was no common point peak month(s) among observed countries. Analyzing the effects of the level of restrictions using the Stringency Index on the number of femicides confirmed the initial observation that the number of femicides was not dependent on lockdown measures. In general, the findings show that restriction measures had no effect on the number of femicides in the studied countries.
K1 Europe
K1 Stringency Index
K1 Restrictions
K1 Covid-19 Pandemic
K1 Femicide
DO 10.1177/10439862241245839