The focus group analysis inside the Pangea project: a tool for the detection of the anti-violence network opinions during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Domestic violence is the hidden pandemic of recent years, and therefore a research project was launched to review the conditions of women through the information provided by anti-violence workers. These workers have been a valuable resource to offset the difficulty of victim studies. The project, created thanks to the contribution of the Tuscany region, consists of several phases, and this article will describe the second phase, in which the focus group was used to obtain data about the pandemic perception and attitudes of the antiviolence workers. It will be possible to see the opinions and divergences of the privileged stakeholders and to make considerations in a forensic-criminological way.