TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Intimate partner stalking and femicide: urgent implications for women's safety
JO  - Behavioral sciences and the law
A1  - McFarlane, Judith M.
A1  - Campbell, Jacquelyn C.
A1  - Watson, Kathy
SP  - 51
EP  - 68
VL  - 20
IS  - 1‐2
N2  - This study describes the type and extent of intimate partner stalking and threatening behaviors that occurred within 12 months prior to a major assault or attempted or actual partner femicide and specifies which behaviors were associated with an increased risk of potential or actual lethality. The design was a ten-city case–control study of 821 women: 384 abuse victims and 437 attempted or actual femicide informants. Data were derived using a 16-item inventory. Logistic regressions, with adjustments for demographic variables, were used to identify the significant perpetrator behaviors associated with attempted/actual femicide. Women who reported the perpetrator followed or spied on them were more than twice as likely to become attempted/actual femicide victims. Threats by the perpetrator to harm the children if the woman left or did not return to the relationship place the woman at a ninefold increase in the risk of attempted/actual femicide. Conclusions are that certain stalking and threatening behaviors are strong risk factors for lethality, and women must be so advised. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0735-3936
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.477
ID  - ref1
ER  -