TY - JOUR PY - 2007// TI - Intimate partner homicide: review and implications of research and policy JO - Trauma, violence, and abuse A1 - Campbell, Jacquelyn C. A1 - Glass, Nel A1 - Sharps, Phyllis W. A1 - Laughon, Kathryn A1 - Bloom, T. SP - 246 EP - 269 VL - 8 IS - 3 N2 - Current rates of intimate partner homicide of females are approximately 4 to 5 times the rate for male victims, although the rates for both have decreased during the past 25 years. The major risk factor for intimate partner homicide, no matter if a female or male partner is killed, is prior domestic violence. This review presents and critiques the evidence supporting the other major risk factors for intimate partner homicide in general, and for intimate partner homicide of women (femicide) in particular, namely guns, estrangement, stepchild in the home, forced sex, threats to kill, and nonfatal strangulation (choking). The demographic risk factors are also examined and the related phenomena of pregnancy-related homicide, attempted femicide, and intimate partner homicide-suicide.

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LA - en SN - 1524-8380 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524838007303505 ID - ref1 ER -