Understanding Domestic HomicideThis groundbreaking examination of murder among intimate partners considers domestic homicides in all their guises — not just those occurring between sexual partners but the killing of children, parents, and siblings as well. Unlike previous studies of domestic killings, which focus on statistical findings, the work illuminates the complex factors that motivate intimate partner murders. |
Contents
Men as Perpetrators of Multiple Killings | 28 |
1 | 29 |
4 Male victims and the precipitation of the intimate killing | 43 |
Women as Perpetrators of Multiple Killings | 63 |
4 Racialethnic background of the female perpetratorvictim | 66 |
The Death of Women in Single Killings | 78 |
1 | 81 |
The Death of Men in Single Killings | 119 |
The Death of Children | 167 |
Making Sense of Domestic Homicide | 204 |
1 Intraracialintraethnic SROKS between sexual intimates | 216 |
Appendix 1 | 237 |
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