Uxoricide (From Trends, Risks, and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group, P 169-178, 1995, Carolyn Block and Richard Block, eds.)

• NCJ Number: 159901
• Author(s): M Wilson; M Daly
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 10 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. NIJ Research Report, See NCJ-154254 for complete document.

Annotation

This paper discusses the circumstances and demographic risk patterns characterizing uxoricide in various Western nations.

Abstract

The paper examines factors that put women at risk of being killed by their husbands, including their mere availability as a victim, the acceptance of husbands' proprietary claims on their wives, and husbands' dysfunctional violent inclinations that are usually expressed in various forms of coercion. Men's tendency to exhibit coercive sexual proprietariness may be exacerbated by such factors as their wives' relative youth, coresidency status, and age disparity between husband and wife. 3 figures and 47 references