Introduction: Violence against women in the COVID-19 emergency

Abstract

The emergency COVID-19, which is spreading around the world forcing isolation and cohabitation, leads to a reflection on the aggravation of the risks that women victims of violence experience. Specific anti-violence centers, institutions and services are asked to rethink new risk prevention practices and measures in order to assure women support and maintain a support network to fight gender-based violence.
There are many questions to rethink: the difficulty of reaching services, the economic crisis that hinders the getting out of violence, the suspended legal proceedings, the possibility of recognizing violence beyond its emergency assessment.
Therefore this issue of "La Camera Blu" Journal intends to collect articles with the first research data about the topic, but also reflections and good practices, in order to share knowledge and experiences useful for building a new synergy of intervention.