WILL HE KILL New information to help identify higher risk cases [note] Practical Implications of Domestic Violence — Research for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Judges (USDoJ 2009) More — Why He Kills and Can he be stopped?
and Domestic violence research citations According to research by Katherine van Wormer, Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, certain patterns have emerged in cases in which men have ended up murdering their spouses and/or children or others, as well as in the common “murder-suicide” cases (the below excludes elder murder-suicides, which have a different dynamic). The presence of some of these factors should create extra caution. The lack of all factors being present, however, should not be taken to indicate the absence of risk. (The statistics and statistical charts are available at the U.S. Dept. of Justice website.) Prof. Wormer writes: The pattern that emerges in these cases involves intimate partners in the 20 to 35-year-old range: The man is abusive, psychologically and/or physically. Obsessed with the woman to the extent that he feels he can’t live without her, he is fiercely jealous and determined to isolate her… Primary among the risk factors are an ab
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