Spousal Homicide: Can It Be Defended?
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...Babcock Inc., November 2000 Introduction The homicide statistics on spousal killings are frighteningly high. A July 1994 report by the Department of Justice, Murder in Families, found that 6.5% of all murder victims were killed by their spouses.(425) Husbands killed wives in 60% of these cases and wives killed husbands in 40%. Only in this one category, women killing husbands or male intimates, does the rate of female violence begin to equal the male rate. In all other instances, it is substantially lower. Many of these homicides are self-defense killings not adequately identified or dealt with by our legal system. The recent large number of grants...
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