Findings Although there were some inconsistent findings, it was found that most of the available research suggests that witnessing domestic violence is prevalent among children and recognized today as

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Families Under Confinement: COVID-19 and Domestic Violence (2023) · doi

  The mixed evidence suggests that more women suffer from psychological domestic violence as captured by hotline calls, while women encounter more barriers to report their abusive husbands to the police as captured by the official police reports.

  Keywords: women captured police mixed evidence suggests suffer psychological domestic violence hotline calls encounter barriers report
• Children witnessing domestic violence (2020) · doi

  Findings Although there were some inconsistent findings, it was found that most of the available research suggests that witnessing domestic violence is prevalent among children and recognized today as a form of abuse.

  Keywords: there inconsistent found available suggests witnessing domestic violence prevalent among children recognized today form abuse
• Male entrapment and its charm warrant: A systematic review characterising male entrapment behaviours of domestic abuse, how they are described and researched (2024) · doi

  Conclusion: This review showed that male behaviour within domestic abuse is chronically under-researched, and behaviours utilised by male perpetrators of abuse to entrap and coercively control a female partner need further investigation, but that charm and power is an area of interest.

  Keywords: male abuse conclusion review behaviour within domestic chronically researched behaviours utilised perpetrators entrap coercively control