A study I stumbled on by pure accident: Women kill their SO more brutally than men.

iainmf · 2017-11-12T01:48:32+00:00

That makes sense. Women are less likely to kill their partner accidentally during violence than men. EG He hits her and she falls and hits her head.

Imnotmrabut · 2017-11-12T08:39:54+00:00

Mize, Krystal D. "Intimate partner homicide methods in heterosexual, gay, and lesbian relationships." Violence and Victims 23.1 (2008): 98. doi:10.1891/0886-6708.23.1.98

Analyses of over 50,000 intimate partner homicides provided support for the hypotheses tested in this research. The results supported all but one prediction derived from the two hypotheses. We predicted that men would kill their partners more brutally than would women, but the results indicate that the opposite is true. As shown in Table 2, guns, followed by knives, are the weapons used most often by both men and women to kill their partners. Both sexes use guns about 65% of the time. However, when women kill their intimate partners they use knives at a rate that is almost double that of men. This result might be explained by the sex-differentiated motives underlying the homicides. Goetting (1987) reported that women often kill their partners in self-defense or in response to fear rather than in a premeditated manner. It is reasonable to suggest that knives are readily available to women who are defending themselves from intimate partner abuse. In this instance, women may be acting out of self-defense rather than out of premeditated brutality.

chambertlo · 2017-11-12T06:26:58+00:00

Shocking.

ryickhard · 2017-11-12T15:27:12+00:00

Can anybody help me, I can see the abstract, but I cannot find the way into the study itself... thanks

Lethn · 2017-11-12T17:33:28+00:00

http://www.toddkshackelford.com/downloads/Mize-Shackelford-Weekes-Shackelford-JFV-2009.pdf

Hmm, I wouldn't put too much hope in this person but I did find other stuff they've done on relationships and domestic violence etc.

Researchers have found differences in killing methods between the sexes. Men tend to kill their partners using methods that require close proximity to their victims, including methods that do not involve a weapon, such as beating or strangling (Dobash et al. 2004; Frye et al. 1999). As indicated above, this may reflect rage and spontaneity of the killings in response to suspected or actual infidelity. Women, in contrast, use weapons more often in physical conflicts with their partners (Langan and Dawson 1995). Given that women’s reported motivations for partner killing include fear for personal and offspring safety, likely related to ongoing abuse, when women kill their partners, they may react less from spontaneous rage and more out of fear with premeditated self-defense using a weapon, perhaps to offset the size and strength difference between men and women

Berkowitz (2002) suggest that many boys and men overestimate the likelihood of male approval of violence against women, leading to more abuse. Therefore, educating male batters about the social norms of their peers may serve to reduce domestic violence and partner-killing as well.

Yeah I think this person is pretty biased.

Title	A study I stumbled on by pure accident: Women kill their SO more brutally than men.
Author	alclarkey
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Date	November 12, 2017 1:05 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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