Prolonged school closure during the pandemic time in successive waves of COVID-19- vulnerability of children to sexual abuses – A case study in Tamil Nadu, India

Prolonged school closure during the pandemic time in successive waves of COVID-19- vulnerability of children to sexual abuses – A case study in Tamil Nadu, India

Objectives: The Tamil Nadu government mandated several stay-at-home orders, with restrictions of varying intensities, to contain the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. This research investigates how such orders impacted child sexual abuse (CSA) by using counterfactual prediction to compare CS...

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Main Authors: Kandaswamy Paramasivan, Bhiksha Raj, Nandan Sudarasanam, Rahul Subburaj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-07-01
Series:Heliyon
Subjects:
Child abuse
Sexual abuse of children
Auto-regressive recurrent neural network
Counterfactual prediction
Pandemic
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023050739

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