The majority (67 to 80 percent) of intimate partner murders of women by a husband, boyfriend, or ex-husband or boyfriend involve physical abuse of the female by the male prior to the murder, no matter which partner is killed (Greenfield et al., 1998; Moracco, Runyan,...
Objectives This 11-city study sought to identify risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships. Methods Proxies of 220 intimate partner femicide victims identified from police or medical examiner records were interviewed, along with 343 abused control women....
