Before the killing: intimate partner homicides in a process perspective, Part I

Intimate partner violence: homicides followed by suicides in Kentucky.

Homicides followed by suicides are rare yet devastating events. This study, for the first time, details the problem in Kentucky by linking coroner, medical examiner, vital statistics and administrative judicial data. In the three-year period 1998-2000, there were 492 firearm homicides in Kentucky, of which 32 (6.5%) were followed by a firearm suicide. All perpetrators who followed their homicid...

Intimate Partner Violence. The gynaecologist’s perspective

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an important public health problem, which has been extensively studied all over the world, yet Belgian data are limited. IPV remains a taboo resulting in denial and underreporting. For an obstetrician-gynaecologist (OB/GYN), IPV, committed by a male partner to a woman, is of particular interest, because of its negative impact on women's and children's health. ...

Intimate partner violence before or during pregnancy in Rhode Island.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) can be any form of physical, psychological, economic, verbal, or sexual abuse by current and former spouses and dating partners. Each year in the United States, IPV affects approximately 1.5 million women, including as many as 324,000 pregnant women.1 IPV during pregnancy can lead to unintended pregnancy, smoking, depression, premature delivery, vaginal bleeding,...

Review: one in seven homicides worldwide is perpetrated by an intimate partner.

INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE A Behavioral Genetic Perspective

Because intimate violence tends to run in families, social learning theory posits that children learn to be violent through watching their parents and through being reinforced for their own aggressive behaviors. This account of intimate partner violence considers only environmental influences on familial resemblance, but familial resemblance may also be due to genetic factors. A genetically sen...