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Differences in the Characteristics of Intimate Femicides

The Role of Relationship State and Relationship Status

MYRNA DAWSON

University of Toronto

ROSEMARY GARTNER

University of Toronto

The relationship between a victim and an offender is critical to understanding the context and dynamics of homicide. It is recognized that the causes and correlates of homicides within intimate relationships differ from the causes and correlates of homicides by strangers. Systematic research has seldom examined, however, differences in the nature of intimate violence, particularly lethal violence, among intimate relationships that vary in the degree of intimacy and level of commitment. Such an examination is important, not only for understanding the phenomenon of intimate femicide, but also for explaining variations in the reactions to such acts. Using relationship state and relationship status to differentiate among various degrees of intimacy and commitment, we show that the characteristics of the people involved in intimate femicides as well as the circumstances surrounding the killing do differ by relationship type.

Homicide Studies, Vol. 2, No. 4, 378-399 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/1088767998002004003


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