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Apr 9, 2020 30 min

TWiSP 2020 M04 Thu09 Audio

from This Week in Sociological Perspective Hosted by Samuel Roundfield Lucas

This week we discuss trends in domestic violence in the Covid-19 pandemic. But first, I recently spoke with University of Toronto professor Markus Schafer to discuss some intriguing findings from his recent paper titled "As Goes the City? Older Americans' Home Upkeep in the Aftermath of the Great Recession." The paper is scheduled to be published in Social Problems, and is co-authored by Jason Settles and Laura Upenieks. Segment 1 -- Markus Schafer on "As Goes the City? Older Americans' Home Upkeep in the Aftermath of the Great Recession" Segment 2 -- "Global Lockdowns Resulting in 'Horrifying Surge' in Domestic Violence, U.N. Warns", NPR; "A Man Killed a Woman And Himself Because He Feared They Had The Coronavirus, Sheriff Says, Buzzfeed News

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