Lethal and nonlethal violence against wives

Wilson, Margo; Johnson, H. R.; Daly, Martin

doi:10.3138/cjcrim.37.3.331

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“…These results suggest that there is something special about reproductive age women that makes them more likely to kill their husbands relative to postreproductive-age women. That "something special" may be that reproductive-age women incur greater risk of husband-perpetrated battery and homicide than do postreproductive-age women [Daly and Wilson, 1988;Shackelford et al, 2000;Wilson et al, 1995]. One important direction for future work is to identify the underlying causes of reproductive-age women's greater risk of battery and, consequently, the higher rates at which reproductive-age women kill their husbands.…”

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“…Not all women are at equal risk for battery and death by a husband. Younger, reproductive-age women are battered and killed by husbands at higher rates than are older, postreproductive-age women [Daly and Wilson, 1988;Shackelford et al, 2000;Wilson et al, 1995]. Because husband killing typically occurs in the context of self-defense or as a last-ditch effort to survive, reproductive-age women should kill their husbands at higher rates than postreproductive-age women.…”

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Reproductive-age women are overrepresented among perpetrators of husband killing

Shackelford

2000

Aggr. Behav.

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When a woman kills her husband, it is almost always an unplanned action of self‐defense against a battering husband or a last‐ditch attempt to survive a batterer's tyranny. Younger, reproductive‐age women are battered and killed by husbands at higher rates than are older, postreproductive‐age women. Because husband killing occurs in the context of self‐defense or as a last‐ditch effort to survive, reproductive‐age women should kill their husbands at higher rates than do postreproductive‐age women. I used a sample of 8,077 husband killings to test this hypothesis. Results support the hypothesis and document that (1) the highest rates of husband killing are for the youngest women, (2) the youngest husbands are at greatest risk of being killed by their wives, (3) women married to older men kill their husbands at higher rates than do women married to same‐age men and women married to younger men, and (4) reproductive‐age women kill their husbands at higher rates than do postreproductive‐age women across two groups: women married to younger men and women married to older men. Discussion suggests directions for future work that can improve the identification of women at greatest risk for husband killing. Aggr. Behav. 26:309–317, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Reproductive-age women are overrepresented among perpetrators of husband killing

Shackelford

2000

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“…Women in cohabiting relationships are at much greater risk for being killed by their partner than are women in marital relationships. Using national Canadian homicide data, Wilson et al [1993Wilson et al [ , 1995 document that women in cohabiting relationships are nine times more likely to be murdered by their partner than are women in marital relationships.…”

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“…Such analyses would allow for a clearer replication of the national-level Canadian data, and I report these analyses using national-level data from the United States. Wilson et al [1993Wilson et al [ , 1995 report that, within marital relationships, women in their early 20s are at greatest risk of uxoricide. In contrast, within cohabiting relationships, middle-aged women, in their mid-30s and 40s, are at greatest risk of uxoricide.…”

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Cohabitation, marriage, and murder: Woman‐killing by male romantic partners

Shackelford

2001

Aggressive Behavior

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Using a national-level US homicide database that includes more than 400,000 homicides committed from 1976-1994, I calculated rates of uxoricide (the murder of a woman by her romantic partner) by type of relationship (cohabiting or marital), ages of the partners, and age difference between partners. Women in cohabiting relationships are about nine times more likely to be killed by their partner than are women in marital relationships. Within marital relationships, the risk of uxoricide decreases with a woman's age. Within cohabiting relationships, in contrast, middle-aged women are at greatest risk of uxoricide. Paralleling the uxoricide victimization rates, uxoricide perpetration rates are highest for young married men and for middle-aged cohabiting men. Uxoricide risk generally increases with greater age difference between partners. These findings provide the first national-level replication of uxoricide risk patterns reported for a national-level Canadian sample. Discussion highlights future research directions, including identifying why women in cohabiting relationships incur greater risk of uxoricide than do women in marital relationships. Aggr. Behav. 27:284-291, 2001.

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“…Each partner's behaviours intensify and evolve in a dynamic interplay with the other partner's responses until chronic abuse has set in or serious harm is done. Unfortunately, at this point, female victims' emotional, social, and material dependency on their abusive male partners can be higher than ever (e.g., Bornstein, 2006) and they, with good reason, may fear the possible repercussions of attempting to leave the relationship (e.g., Wilson, Johnson, & Daly, 1995). Unfortunately, to ''just leave'' the relationship, once a pattern of abuse is entrenched, is not an easy option for female victims (Keys Young, 1998).…”

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Before they're victims: Rethinking youth-targeted relationship abuse prevention in Australia

Murphy

Smith

2009

Australian Psychologist

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Intimate partner abuse (or relationship abuse) against women is recognised as a major public health issue. A number of relationship abuse prevention programs targeted at youth have been developed in Australia. These programs are generally aimed at changing attitudes, and take the stance that girls should not be viewed as being responsible for protecting themselves against violence. In this paper it is argued that the current, dominant focus on physical violence, over other forms of relationship abuse, limits the potential effectiveness of programs that might otherwise help young people to resist the development of abusive dynamics. It is also argued that programs that presume a victim status for girls and a perpetrator status for boys are both inconsistent with contemporary evidence and unlikely to empower young people at risk of chronic perpetration and/or victimisation to avoid such outcomes. A dyadic slippery slope model of chronic relationship abuse is proposed and new directions for prevention research in this area are suggested.

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Lethal and nonlethal violence against wives

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Reproductive-age women are overrepresented among perpetrators of husband killing

Reproductive-age women are overrepresented among perpetrators of husband killing

Cohabitation, marriage, and murder: Woman‐killing by male romantic partners

Before they're victims: Rethinking youth-targeted relationship abuse prevention in Australia

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