Why have male-victim intimate homicide rates bottomed out since 1975? (Divorce?)

tomek77 · 2011-04-30T17:52:19+00:00

Why would you want to kill your husband, when you can take everything he has and loves, condemn him to lifelong poverty (or worse) and torment him at will with new motions in family court?

It kind of makes sense

2011-05-01T05:03:21+00:00

Why has the homicide rate of men and black women bottomed out but the rate for white female victims remains the same?

Feckless · 2011-05-02T13:35:08+00:00

I have heard this being linked to shelters. Women can escape the violence via shelters....men....well not so much

pakmanishere · 2011-04-30T17:35:08+00:00

Mandatory arrest policies? Men can't be killed when their in jail.

Although, mandatory arrest policies have been shown to increase recidivism and violence against women.

Recurring intimate partner violence (IPV) is most frequently sustained by interactive factors (Leonard & Senchak, 1993; Levenson & Gottman, 1983; Margolin et al., 1989; Stets & Straus, 1992a,b) and bilateral violence is the most common form of IPV; the stereotype of male perpetrator–woman victim is the least common form (Stets & Straus, 1992a,b). Left without state intervention, most violent marriages de-escalate rather than escalate (Feld & Straus, 1990) and state intervention in the form of mandatory arrest has differentially effective impact on different populations as function of their marginality in the social fabric (Sherman et al., 1992). Even summed across all groups the ability of arrest to depress recidivism is slight and limited to about 8 months (Sherman et al., 1992).

Sherman et al. (1992) performed the largest and most extensive of six replications of the Sherman and Berk (1984) study. The arrest potential for recidivism reduction suggested by the Sherman and Berk study led to replications with larger samples in six US cities. Largest of the studies was in Milwaukee with 1200 cases of domestic violence. Sherman et al. (1992) addressed the question of whether arrest works to reduce recidivism for certain kinds of offenders and whether it may increase recidivism for others. Police responding to wife assault calls deemed the call eligible for the experiment if the victim was not seriously injured, the perpetrator was on the scene, and no warrants existed for his arrest. The initial effects of arrest were to suppress recidivism. For thirty days after the presenting incident, the prevalence (proportion of cases with one or more incidents) of repeat violence reported in the victim interviews was substantially lower in the arrest groups. However, at about 7–9 months after the presenting incident, the arrest and non-arrest recidivism curves cross over and from that point on the arrest group has a higher rate of recidivism. That is, for this sample, the long term effect of arrest was to increase the rate of repeat violence. This increase is small in magnitude but consistent across all measures of repeat violence. The arrested group averaged 124 days before repeating, whereas the warned group averaged 160days. Hotline data showed a statistically significant long term escalation effect from arrest (but only for the short arrest group). The authors conclude that police departments with policies of releasing arrestees within 3 h of arrest might want to reconsider this policy.

The persons for whom arrest backfired in the long term were socially marginal (defined by the authors as black, unemployed, not married to the victim and high school dropouts). While arrest deterred those who were most likely to socially conform, it escalated other groups into higher frequencies of domestic violence. As Sherman et al. put it “When the majority of domestic violence incidents responded to by police involve unemployed suspects, then mandatory arrest fails to produce the greatest good for the greatest number”

Quazz · 2011-04-30T17:35:06+00:00

Because now they hire/persuade/trick people to kill them for them.

Title	Why have male-victim intimate homicide rates bottomed out since 1975? (Divorce?)
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Date	April 30, 2011 5:25 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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