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> Why did it [murder rate] go up in the first place during the pandemic. One easy hypothesis is that a) we know you’re most likely to get murdered by your spou
by Swizec 3y ago
> Why did it [murder rate] go up in the first place during the pandemic.
One easy hypothesis is that a) we know you’re most likely to get murdered by your spouse, this is true for both men and women and b) we know lockdowns forced people into 24/7 sharing space with their partners.
So I think it would be interesting to see how much of that homicide increase was from domestic violence incidents. And whether domestic violence overall showed an increase.
- brandall10 3y agoSurprisingly not a factor. "There was no significant change in intimate partner homicides during shutdown months and victimization survey reports of intimate partner violence were lower". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9343070/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9343070/
- sneed_chucker 3y agoYeah but the majority of murders are not spousal.