Domestic Violence Resulting from Home Quarantine Related to The Corona Pandemic (Covid-19)

Abstract

The study aims to identify the causes of domestic violence resulting from domestic quarantine related to the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in light of the increasing incidence of violence, especially in Saudi Arabia, and identify the difficulties facing the social specialist role in reducing domestic violence resulting from the effects of the Corona pandemic. In order to achieve these objectives, the comprehensive social survey approach has been adopted on (101) social specialists working in the Domestic Violence Protection Centers affiliated with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development in the Riyadh region.  The most prominent finding of the study is to limit the causes of domestic violence to economic hardship due to the lack of income of the family breadwinner, and the loss of work or job due to the economic situation of the Corona pandemic. The obstacles facing the social specialist are the victim’s fear of the aggressor, which leads to not completing the procedures to solve the problem and the victim’s lack of awareness of the social specialist role.