A Socio-Legal Study on The Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic towards Domestic Violence Cases

Covid-19 pandemic which has spread in nearly every country across the world that lead to total lockdown combined with isolation measures has a high potential for escalating domestic violence in Malaysia. The rise of domestic violence during the pandemic was due to economic, social, and psychological factors on individuals, families, and communities. Therefore, this paper seeks to identify the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on domestic violence cases in Malaysia. Hence, using qualitative methods of research that include content analysis, this paper aims to analyse the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on domestic violence cases in Malaysia and the available mechanisms, and the active parties that offered the assistance to the victims of domestic abuse in Malaysia. The paper describes that all parties especially the Government of Malaysia are actively helping the victims and preventing the rising of the domestic case although it is reported some of the mechanisms are not available during Covid-19 lockdown. Apart from that, although domestic violence is categorized as a crime in Malaysia, the positive impacts, the occurrence of domestic violence during the pandemic allows the intellectual impacts to prosper concurrently.