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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]]. |
'''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]]. |
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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> |
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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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| + | 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> However, wives were more likely to kill their husbands than vice-versa in some US cities including Chicago, Detroit and Houston.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01102.x< |
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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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| − | 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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Revision as of 14:16, 18 August 2020
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.
In the US in 2007, female victims made up 70%.[1]
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.[2] However, wives were more likely to kill their husbands than vice-versa in some US cities including Chicago, Detroit and Houston.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01102.x<