Citation

Kafka JM, Moracco KE, Graham LM, AbiNader MA, Fliss MD, Rowhani-Rahbar A. JAMA Netw. Open 2023; 6(5): e2312768.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.12768

PMID

37163268

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) can be lethal, although the total contribution of IPV to fatal violence in the US remains unknown.1 Researchers often study intimate partner homicide (IPH) but may overlook other IPV-related deaths. Family, children, or new dating partners can be killed in corollary homicides. A perpetrator of IPV may be killed as a result of law enforcement response to IPV (ie, legal intervention) or may die by suicide after committing homicide (ie, homicide-suicide). Additionally, IPV could contribute to suicide in the absence of other fatalities (ie, single suicide). Emerging research suggests that single suicides were more common among perpetrators of IPV than among survivors of IPV, but single suicides occurred in both groups.2 We sought to provide the most complete assessment available of IPV's contribution to the burden of violent deaths in the US...

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