CoronaCrime #85

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a terrible toll on lives, illness, and economic devastation and it is having diverse effects on violence and crime. Daily Prevention News publishes weekly a Corona Crime Issue dedicated to collect related news and information.

1. Neighborhood Racial and Economic Segregation and Disparities in Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
   In the first five months of the pandemic, violence increased in the nation’s most underserved communities, according to a recent study from the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis. Source: AJPH
2. Planet pharma: what the industry got out of COVID – podcast
   After nearly two years of COVID, how is the pharmaceutical industry faring? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we explore where drug companies were before the arrival of COVID and how they performed financially during the pandemic. And we hear about the ongoing tensions between profits and equitable access to vaccines. Source: The Conversation
3. Research series: anti-lockdown movements across Europe and North America 
   This briefing provides a summary of our newest series, analysing the make-up and activities of anti-lockdown activists across borders, comparing the movements and identifying commonalities. The Source: ISD Global

Please find more information and news about the interlinkages between the Coronavirus, Crime and Violence in German published every Tuesday on our German News Service Tägliche Präventions News.