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...
Aims The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of women who sought court protection orders for domestic violence (PODV) about actions to implement laws intended to disarm their abusers. Methods We identified female victims of intimate partner...
The objective of this study was to identify risk factors for abuse and IPV related injury among an urban population. This study reports an additional analysis of a case-control study conducted from 1994 to 2000 in 11 USA metropolitan cities where of 4746 women, 3637...
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....
