Death by Domestic Violence: Preventing the Murders and Murder-Suicides

by Albert R. Roberts, Katherine S. Van Wormer, Katherine Stuart van Wormer

Book Overview

Each year, about 33 percent of all women and 3 percent of all men murdered in the United States, are killed by a so-called intimate, a spouse, partner, or lover. Nationwide, murder by an intimate is the number one cause of death for pregnant women. And murder by an intimate is not just an American problem. A European task force recently found domestic violence accounts for 25 percent of all homicides in London, and 35 percent across England and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313354898
• ISBN13: 9780313354892
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"