Covid-19 & Domestic Abuse: Similarities between Government Policies & Actions during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Domestic Violence/Coercive Control

Abstract

This paper will outline a model of domestic violence (DV)/coercive control (CC) which is then used to help us to understand better how the Irish government, along with most Governments in the Anglospheere, was so successful in gaining population compliance with draconian measures used in the Covid 19 pandemic.