@article{ref1,
title="Hands-on Killing of Intimate Partners as a Function of Sex and Relationship Status/State",
journal="Journal of family violence",
year="2009",
author="Mize, Krystal D. and Shackelford, Todd K. and Shackelford, Viviana A.",
volume="24",
number="7",
pages="463-470",
abstract="Guided by evolutionary psychology and a situational perspective on violence, we generated three hypotheses to investigate whether the percentage of intimate partner homicides by beating, a hands-on homicide method, varies with the victim-offender relationship. We tested these hypotheses with a national database that includes incident-level information on over 50,000 intimate partner homicides. Results indicate that: (1) men are more likely than women to kill a partner by beating, and (2) men are more likely to kill their partners by beating when the relationship is dating or non-marital cohabiting (versus legal marriage). We argue that the lack of commitment in these non-marital relationships may produce greater jealousy in men, driving the perpetrator to kill his victim in a more violent manner (i.e., beating), relative to men who kill their wives.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0885-7482",
doi="10.1007/s10896-009-9244-5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-009-9244-5"
}