From intimate partners to serial killers: Nearly 40 years of female homicides in King County, Washington (1978–2016)
Jillian Jetson,
Heather Maioli,
Richard C. Harruff
et al.
Abstract:An extreme, known potential outcome of intimate partner violence (IPV) is death, with national data revealing females are more likely to be killed by intimate partners than by others. In a novel pairing, the King County Medical Examiner's Office data management system and the Washington State Attorney General's Office's Homicide Information Tracking System were retrospectively analyzed (1978–2016) with information gathered pertaining to female homicide victims. Analyses show that female victims commonly knew t… Show more
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