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A comprehensive exploration, Studying and Prevention of Homicide offers thoroughly researched chapters by a distinguished group of contributors. Leading scholars in the field, editors M. Dwayne Smith and Margaret A. Zahn have compiled an extensive range of topics including: mass and serial murders, homicides by youth, gang homicides, domestic homicides, homicides by female offenders, and alcohol/drug related homicides.
Homicide between Intimate Partners
Homicide between Intimate Partners
Until the 1980s, studies of homicide in the United States did not focus on homicides between intimate partners or on differences in the risks of intimate homicide for women and men. Some studies disaggregated (separated) homicide into various subtypes, such as family, acquaintance, or stranger homicide, but none disaggregated couple homicides by the type of relationship (married vs. nonmarried) and gender of the perpetrator. This practice tended to mask gender and relationship differences as well as trends that differed through time from the larger national trends.
The years since the mid-1970s are especially important for examining trends of lethal violence in marital and dating relationships. Prior to 1974, assaults against wives were considered misdemeanors in most states, even when ...
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