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+ | '''Uxoricide''' is the murder of one's wife or girlfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. The killing of a husband is called [[mariticide]]. |
| + | FBI data from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s found that for every 100 husbands who killed their wives in the United States, about 75 women killed their husbands.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01102.x</ref> |
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| − | in the US in 2007, female victims made up 70%.<ref>{{cite web |title=Understanding Intimate Partner Violence |url=https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ipv-factsheet.pdf |publisher=cdc.gov |accessdate=6 March 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306091503/https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ipv-factsheet.pdf |archivedate=6 March 2016}}</ref> FBI data from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s found that for every 100 husbands who killed their wives in the United States, about 75 women killed their husbands.<ref name=Wilson-Daley1992/> However, wives were more likely to kill their husbands than vice-versa in some US cities including Chicago, Detroit and Houston.<ref name=Wilson-Daley1992>{{cite journal |last1 = Wilson |first1 = M. I. | last2 = Daley |first2 = M. |year = 1992 |title = Who kills whom in spouse killings? On the exceptional sex ratio of spousal homicides in the United States |url = |journal = Criminology |volume = 30 |issue = |pages = 189–215 |doi = 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01102.x }}</ref><ref name=Titterington-Harper2005>{{cite journal |last1 = Titterington |first1 = V. B. |last2 = Harper |first2 = L. |year = 2005 |title = Women as the aggressors in intimate partner homicide in Houston, 1980s to 1990s |url = |journal = Journal of Offender Rehabilitation |volume = 41 |issue = 4 |pages = 83–98 |doi = 10.1300/j076v41n04_04 }}</ref> and in St. Louis.<ref name=Rosenfeld1997>{{cite journal |last1 = Rosenfeld |first1 = R |year = 1997 |title = Changing relationships between men and women. A note on the decline in intimate partner violence |url = |journal = Homicide Studies |volume = 1 |issue = |pages = 72–83 |doi = 10.1177/1088767997001001006 }}</ref> Per the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, white men are statistically more likely to be perpetrators of uxoricide than any other demographic between 1998 and 2002.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Durose |first1=Matthew R. |last2=Harlow |first2=Caroline Wolf |last3=Langan |first3=Patrick A. |last4=Motivans |first4=Mark A. |last5=Rantala |first5=Ramona R. |last6=Smith |first6=Erica L. |title=Family Violence Statistics: Including Statistics on Strangers and Acquaintances |date=2005 |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics |isbn=978-1249558972 |page=1 |url=https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=828 |language=en}}</ref> |
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| + | Research in Houston, Texas found that women were more likely than men to kill their partners or spouses for certain demographics: |
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| − | In the region of [[South-East Asia]], 55% of all murdered women died at the hands of their partner, followed by 40% in the African region and 38% in the Americas.<ref>{{cite web |title=Global and regional estimates of violence against women: prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence |url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85239/1/9789241564625_eng.pdf |accessdate=6 March 2016}}</ref> Preliminary findings of an ongoing study estimate that globally, approximately 35% of murders of women are committed by intimate partners.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stockl |first1=H. |title=The global prevalence of intimate partner homicide: a systematic review. |journal=World Health Organization |date=n.d. |url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/77421/1/WHO_RHR_12.38_eng.pdf}}</ref> |
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| + | <blockquote>Throughout the fifteen-year period of this study, women were over 40 percent of the offenders in lethal domestic assaults. Both victims and offenders in these intimate partner incidents were disproportionately Black. When comparing the sex ratios of killing by racial/ethnic subgroups, Black women were equally (or more) likely than Black men to be the perpetrators of intimate domestic homicide. Among non-Hispanic Whites (including Asians, others), there were 63 female intimate partner homicide offenders for every 100 male offenders. Within the small number of cases involving Hispanic couples, women were much more likely to be the aggressors in intimate partner homicide in the latter time period of this investigation. For both Blacks and Whites women were more likely to be the perpetrators in non-marital dyads.<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J076v41n04_04</ref></blockquote> |
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| − | Rates of uxoricide seem to fluctuate across western cultures, with approximately seven women being killed per month in England and Wales,<ref>ONS (2015), Crime Survey England and Wales 2013–14. London: Office for National Statistics.</ref> approximately four women per month in Australia,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bryant |first1=Willow |last2=Cussen |first2=Tracy |title=Homicide in Australia: 2010–11 to 2011–12: National Homicide Monitoring Program report |journal=Australian Institute of Criminology Monitoring Reports |date=2015 |volume=83 |issue=8 |pages=1836–2095 |url=http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/mr/21-40/mr23.html}}</ref> and approximately 76 women per month in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2011 Homicide Data |url=http://www.vpc.org/studies/wmmw2013.pdf |accessdate=6 March 2016}}</ref> Note that these data come from different years, and that the United States has a much higher population than the UK or Australia. |
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Latest revision as of 22:49, 27 November 2022
Uxoricide is the murder of one's wife or girlfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. The killing of a husband is called mariticide.
FBI data from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s found that for every 100 husbands who killed their wives in the United States, about 75 women killed their husbands.[1]
Research in Houston, Texas found that women were more likely than men to kill their partners or spouses for certain demographics:
Throughout the fifteen-year period of this study, women were over 40 percent of the offenders in lethal domestic assaults. Both victims and offenders in these intimate partner incidents were disproportionately Black. When comparing the sex ratios of killing by racial/ethnic subgroups, Black women were equally (or more) likely than Black men to be the perpetrators of intimate domestic homicide. Among non-Hispanic Whites (including Asians, others), there were 63 female intimate partner homicide offenders for every 100 male offenders. Within the small number of cases involving Hispanic couples, women were much more likely to be the aggressors in intimate partner homicide in the latter time period of this investigation. For both Blacks and Whites women were more likely to be the perpetrators in non-marital dyads.[2]
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