Impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on sexual assault cases in Eastern Denmark: a retrospective clinical forensic study
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Impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on sexual assault cases in Eastern Denmark : a retrospective clinical forensic study. / Bidstrup, Johanne Ejby; Busch, Johannes Rødbro; Munkholm, Julie; Banner, Jytte.
I: Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, Bind 18, 2022, s. 125-132.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on sexual assault cases in Eastern Denmark
T2 - a retrospective clinical forensic study
AU - Bidstrup, Johanne Ejby
AU - Busch, Johannes Rødbro
AU - Munkholm, Julie
AU - Banner, Jytte
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - To explore if the shutdown of Danish nightlife during the Covid-19 pandemic caused a decrease in the number of clinical forensic examinations of victims of sexual assault in Eastern Denmark. Secondarily, to investigate, if there was a change in criminological characteristics, e.g. scene and time of crime, relation to the perpetrator and the proportion of possible drug-facilitated sexual assaults. 130 case files from clinical forensic examinations of individuals of alleged sexual assault in the period 1st of April to 30th of June in both 2019 and 2020 were included. 67 and 63 examinations were performed in 2019 and 2020, respectively. 125 cases were female and five were male. Approximately 70% were 15–25 years of age. Pre- and post-lockdown victim profiles were similar regarding assailant relation, location of crime and time of assault. Voluntary intake of alcohol prior to the assault was registered with 46.3% in 2019 and 62% in 2020. The ratio of possible drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) was approximately 50% each year. The lockdown did not seem to change the overall number of examinations or the demographic and criminological characteristics of the sexual assault victims. No decrease in cases of possible DFSA was found despite the lockdown of nightlife venues.
AB - To explore if the shutdown of Danish nightlife during the Covid-19 pandemic caused a decrease in the number of clinical forensic examinations of victims of sexual assault in Eastern Denmark. Secondarily, to investigate, if there was a change in criminological characteristics, e.g. scene and time of crime, relation to the perpetrator and the proportion of possible drug-facilitated sexual assaults. 130 case files from clinical forensic examinations of individuals of alleged sexual assault in the period 1st of April to 30th of June in both 2019 and 2020 were included. 67 and 63 examinations were performed in 2019 and 2020, respectively. 125 cases were female and five were male. Approximately 70% were 15–25 years of age. Pre- and post-lockdown victim profiles were similar regarding assailant relation, location of crime and time of assault. Voluntary intake of alcohol prior to the assault was registered with 46.3% in 2019 and 62% in 2020. The ratio of possible drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) was approximately 50% each year. The lockdown did not seem to change the overall number of examinations or the demographic and criminological characteristics of the sexual assault victims. No decrease in cases of possible DFSA was found despite the lockdown of nightlife venues.
KW - Clinical forensic medicine
KW - Covid-19
KW - Drug-facilitated sexual assault
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Sexual assault
U2 - 10.1007/s12024-021-00455-0
DO - 10.1007/s12024-021-00455-0
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35091897
AN - SCOPUS:85123844818
VL - 18
SP - 125
EP - 132
JO - Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
JF - Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
SN - 1547-769X
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