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picture that emerges from When Men Murder Women, is that women face
the greatest threat from someone they know, most often a spouse or intimate
acquaintance, who is armed with a gun,” the report says.
USA - Firearms, Partners, Cause Most Murders of Women
November 24, 2008
In 2006, 1,836 females in the United States were murdered
in cases in which a single male offender killed a single female victim. In nine
out of ten of these cases (92 percent), the victim was murdered by someone she
knew. Three in five victims who knew their attackers were wives, ex-wives or
intimate partners of their killers, and 16 percent were shot and killed during
an argument.
Those are major findings from the Violence Policy Center’s
latest report, When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2006 Homicide Data.
It is based on data from the FBI’s unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report.
Researchers examined cases of homicides involving one female murder victim and
one male offender. They found that more than 12 times as many females were
murdered by a male they knew than were killed by a male stranger.
The study finds that firearms were, by far, the most common
weapon used by males to murder females, and were involved in 54 percent of
these homicides. “The picture that emerges from When Men Murder Women is
that women face the greatest threat from someone they know, most often a spouse
or intimate acquaintance, who is armed with a gun,” the report says. “For women
in America, guns are not used to save lives, but to take them.”
In 2006, the national rate of women killed by men in single
victim/single offender incidents was 1.29 out of 100,000. Nevada ranked highest
of all states with a murder rate (3.27 per 100,000) more than two and a half
times the national average. Ranked behind Nevada were South Carolina, Alabama,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, Vermont, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona and Tennessee.
When Men Murder Women is available online here.
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