To be isolated at home without contact with either workmates or other surroundings means for some people that they spend all hours of the day together with someone who is violent. At the same time, in the unusual situation that society is in, there are additional factors that can lead to increased violence and, in the worst case, the danger to those who must now be at home with their perpetrators.

"Insulation is a vulnerability factor"

- We know that isolation is a vulnerability factor because many perpetrators try to isolate the vulnerable and here society does to a certain extent for them. Other risk factors include, for example, financial vulnerability. Today we can see that unemployment also seems to be increasing in society, so you also have to take this into account, because it makes the vulnerable even more vulnerable if, for example, they do not have a job to go to, says Susanne Strand.

Research on violence in close relationship

She researches, among other things, on violence in close relationship at Örebro University and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. According to her, those living with a violent partner are extra vulnerable now and it is likely that the number who seek help from women's shelters and report to the police will increase after the isolation.

"I think, unfortunately, that violence is increasing right now," she says.

Hear Susanne Strand tell us more in the clip above.