Difference between revisions of "Uxoricide"
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In the US in 2007, female victims made up 70%.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ipv-factsheet.pdf</ref> |
In the US in 2007, female victims made up 70%.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/ipv-factsheet.pdf</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 |
+ | 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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| + | 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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| + | <blockquote>Results: 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</ref></blockquote> |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Revision as of 14:25, 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]
Research in Houston, Texas found that women were more likely than men to kill their partners or spouses for certain demographics:
Results: 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.[3]