Domestic Homicide is gendered Flashcards
1
Q
FBI Uniform Crime Reports, adapted from STARK (2014) suggests that…
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men kill women in far greater numbers annually than women kill men - GENDERED
2
Q
Fairly widely accepted that a proportion of women who kill men will have done so after suffering…
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significant coercive controlling abuse
3
Q
Stark’s US domestic data (2014) shows overall trend in domestic homicide is down, BUT MUCH MORE FOR…
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MEN
4
Q
Stark’s US domestic data (2014) shows overall trend in domestic homicide is down, BUT MUCH MORE FOR MEN.
Explanation? While DA response has improved such that more women have been helped to leave abusive relationships before resorting to kill husbands/partners, less success in protecting women from their…
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ex-partners
