Battered Women Who Were “Being Killed and Survived It”: Straight Talk From Survivors

Abstract

Findings from police reports and interviews with women who have survived an attempted domestic homicide revealed patterns in their experiences and sources of distress. The build-up in the year prior to the near-lethal attack involved tension from ongoing contact with an angry, controlling batterer. Most typically the perpetrator was an alcoholic or drug addict, a gun owner, and, if his victim had left him, her stalker. In the majority of cases, the victim had either left or announced that she was leaving the relationship. While he had often threatened her life and she feared him, she typically did not think him capable of killing her. She described the attack as shocking and terrifying, and she felt certain she was going to die. In the immediate aftermath, she received some support, but as time went by, she felt isolated and alone. Ultimately, the women became convinced that they must rely on their "inner strength" to get on with their lives.

Injuries of Women Surviving Intimate Partner Strangulation and Subsequent Emergency Health Care Seeking: An Integrative Evidence Review

“…After removing duplicates, 207 unique records remained and, after title and available abstract evaluation, 157 were removed as they did not meet either of the aims of this review, and 50 remained for full text review. An additional 37 were excluded during full text review (see Figure 1), with 13 meeting criteria for inclusion: 8 descriptive studies (5 quantitative, 8,9,19–21 2 qualitative, 6,7 and 1 mixed methods 22 ), as well as five case reports. 3–5,23,24…”

Letter to the Editor—A Preliminary Investigation of Siblicide as a Function of Genetic Relatedness

“…Even in this city‐level database covering nearly 30 years, few siblicides were committed, rendering it impossible to perform statistically powerful tests of the predictions. The results might nevertheless be interpreted as providing preliminary qualitative evidence of the potential value of differentiating genetic relationships in siblicide research (see (16), for a recent argument regarding the value of small–sample, qualitative research). What is needed is a much larger siblicide database that codes for the genetic relationship between the victim and offender.…”

“Do You Know What It Feels Like to Drown?”

“…Researchers for two studies (Farr, 2002;Nicolaidis et al, 2003) interviewed a total of 38 women who were victims of attempted homicide by an intimate partner. Cases were identified through police reports, and strangulation was one of several methods of assault.…”