TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Hands-on Killing of Intimate Partners as a Function of Sex and Relationship Status/State
JO  - Journal of family violence
A1  - Mize, Krystal D.
A1  - Shackelford, Todd K.
A1  - Shackelford, Viviana A.
SP  - 463
EP  - 470
VL  - 24
IS  - 7
N2  - 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 /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-7482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-009-9244-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -