Citation

Merzagora I, Battistini A, Caruso P, Mottale N, Pleuteri L, Travaini G. Med. Leg. J. 2019; ePub(ePub): 25817219866113.

Affiliation

University of Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Medico-Legal Society, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1177/0025817219866113

PMID

31577523

Abstract

Most murder victims in a romantic relationship are women but sometimes they will kill their husbands or partners (mariticide). This paper focuses on these rarer cases using a sample taken from the autopsy reports of the Department of Legal Medicine of the University of Milan whose territory includes the municipality of Milan and part of the province of Milan and Monza - approximately four million inhabitants.

Language: en

Keywords

Italy; motives; murder of spouses and partners; prevention; separation fear; untreated psychiatric illness; women as perpetrators