Uxoricide
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.[2][3] and in St. Louis.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6] Preliminary findings of an ongoing study estimate that globally, approximately 35% of murders of women are committed by intimate partners.[7]
Rates of uxoricide seem to fluctuate across western cultures, with approximately seven women being killed per month in England and Wales,[8] approximately four women per month in Australia,[9] and approximately 76 women per month in the United States.[10] 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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