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Lockdowns, Family Violence and Social Protection

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This chapter explores social protection in relation to family violence in a COVID-19 context. To this end, the chapter explores the impact of lockdown measures on the occurrence of child abuse, intimate partner violence and elder abuse, social protection responses to family violence and considerations for an integrated social protection system.

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    Yvonne Crichton-Hill

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  2. College of Arts, University of Canterbury, Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand

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  3. University of Canterbury, Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand

    Yvonne Crichton-Hill

  4. School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury, Sheffield, Canterbury, New Zealand

    Arindam Basu

  5. Sociology, Criminology and Gender Studies Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

    Patrick Vakaoti

  6. Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Crichton-Hill, Y. (2021). Lockdowns, Family Violence and Social Protection. In: Ratuva, S., Ross, T., Crichton-Hill, Y., Basu, A., Vakaoti, P., Martin-Neuninger, R. (eds) COVID-19 and Social Protection. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2948-8_3

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