Women were attacked about six times more often by offenders with whom they had an intimate relationship than were male violence victims.
Nearly 30 percent of all female homicide victims were known to have been killed by their husbands, former husbands or boyfriends.
In contrast, just over 3 percent of male homicide victims were known to have been killed by their wives, former wives or girlfriends.
Husbands, former husbands, boyfriends and ex-boyfriends committed more than one million violent acts against women.
Family members or other people they knew committed more than 2.7 million violent crimes against women.
Husbands, former husbands, boyfriends and ex-boyfriends committed 26 percent of rapes and sexual assaults.
Forty-five percent of all violent attacks against female victims 12 years old and older by multiple offenders involve offenders they know.
The rate of intimate-offender attacks on women separated from their husbands was about three times higher than that of divorced women and about 25 times higher than that of married women.
Women of all races were equally vulnerable to attacks by intimates.
Female victims of violence were more likely to be injured when attacked by someone they knew than female victims of violence who were attacked by strangers.

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Super resource, Sunnie!

Thank's Sunnie for the information it helps me open my eyes to the satistics and could have or could happen to me if I din't put him in jail...

you put him in jail,but when he gets out and has you no longer because of a divorce,and has no family because they don't have to much to do with him,so he has noone.he has always been the type of person who didn't care who was around when he was pist at me,he would say and do what he wanted,one time we were at a blues on the green concert outside and he was drinking well i went to leave cause when he drinks he is pretty bad and he followed me and in front of everyone was grabbing my arm and jerking me around,this happened in front of many people and noone offered help,i kept looking at people but i don't know i guess noone wanted to get involved,so when he gets out should i be concerned,i am in alaska he is in cali,he is pretty psyco,i mean like he has 2 personalitys but the mean one was always there.maybe i am not making sense,my question actually is,is there a certain type of abuser that kills?how does a person know what he is willing to do?i used to hide the hammer in our house because i would always get this feeling if he got too mad at me he would use it on me,i don't put a whole lot past him,i know he is going to be really mad that he won't have visitation with our baby except for supervised..i was just kind of wanting to know if their was certain signs that would give me a hint..the reason i am asking is because i heard from his sister today that he should be out sometime in august and i guess you could say i am getting a little nervous..thanks

Objectives. This 11-city study sought to identify risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships.

Methods. Proxies of 220 intimate partner femicide victims identified from police or medical examiner records were interviewed, along with 343 abused control women.

Results. Preincident risk factors associated in multivariate analyses with increased risk of intimate partner femicide included perpetrator’s access to a gun and previous threat with a weapon, perpetrator’s stepchild in the home, and estrangement, especially from a controlling partner. Never living together and prior domestic violence arrest were associated with lowered risks. Significant incident factors included the victim having left for another partner and the perpetrator’s use of a gun. Other significant bivariate-level risks included stalking, forced sex, and abuse during pregnancy.

Conclusions. There are identifiable risk factors for intimate partner femicides.
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Dutton and Kerry (1999), in a study of 90 incarcerated spousal killings, found that the majority were reactive, unplanned events. More often than not, the couple had separated or was about to separate. The man was making one last desperate (and unsuccessful) attempt to convince the woman to remain in the relationship. The man then killed the partner, typically with a weapon found at the scene (knife or club) or by strangulation. Crime scene indicators showed disorganization, overkill, and feeble attempts to move or hide the body but in a way that it would be found. Suicide attempts and/or ideation were frequent. In our study, motives of anger (23), argument (9), and conflict (6), or 71%, were noted to have disorganized crime scenes with the offenders easily identified.

Familicide (killing of both the wife and minor children) is described as a dramatic reflection of men's proprietary attitudes toward women and their reproductive capacities (Serran & Firestone, 2004). One case in the younger group included the murder of a young mother and her two children. The murder of a female partner and her paramour or the female partner and children is described in the literature as an almost exclusively male activity. It is theorized that a man's feelings of possessiveness and control extend to the children; similarly, his feelings of sexual jealousy extend toward men believed to be sexual rivals, or other individuals trying to protect the woman. All of these individuals may then be targets of violence.

Roxy - look up "risk factors for femicide" - you'll find a whole lot of info that might clarify your situation. There's a lot more that I could cite, but you'll find it all