Domestic homicide
Nourhan Kamal Mahmud Khamis;
Abstract
Domestic violence is known as a social phenomenon since early modern society which has been based on family. The endpoint of domestic violence is domestic homicide.
Domestic homicide is an extreme form of domestic violence; causes of domestic homicide have reflected a variety of factors e.g. biological, psychological, social and cultural factors.
Recently, domestic homicide shows widely spread serious problem as it comes among the top 10 leading causes of death for men, women, and children between the ages of 1 and 44 years.
Domestic homicide includes many types,the most common type is uxoricide (spousal or intimate partner homicide),and it represents the most prevalent cases of murder within the family. Other types include parricide, the murder of a parent by an offspring or a stepchild; filicide, the murder of a child by a parent; and siblicide, the killing of one sibling by another; and familicide, the killing of one's whole family.
Killing weapons here have been widely variable, including guns, sharp instruments (knives), strangulation, firearms, bodily force and blunt objects.
Gender differences in domestic aggression and homicide are very noticeable, approximately half of spousal homicide offenders are wives, and about 5 million women per year are reported to be assaulted by their male partners, while homicide victim rates for women are still much higher than male rates, with a four to one rate.
Also, 40-70 % of women who have been murdered were killed by their intimate partners, usually in the context of an abusive relationship, whereas only 6 % of male homicide victims were killed by their wives or girlfriends, and large number (42 %) committed suicide after homicide, with most ending in the completed suicide of the perpetrator.
As regards the closely correlation between partner violence and homicide and alcohol and substance abuse , studies found that men who consumed alcohol were 3 times likely to commit violent acts against their partners and also women with alcohol and substance abuse show high rates of F.M.P.V.
Most researchers report high increase in the domestic homicide rate recent years, while other researchers record decrease in domestic violence homicide rates due to mandatory jail sentences for misdemeanor domestic violence homicide offenders, laws restricting access to firearms by abusers under restraining orders reduce IPHs.
The incidence of domestic homicide is somewhat higher in rural areas than in urban areas, the incidences of these crimes were higher in upper Egypt governorates (48.2 %) than frontier governorates (11.5 %).
Homicide here is closely related to age, the rate of violence and homicide for couples in the 18 to 29 age group are highest, studies considered the age group 20 -40 is the nosy age and one of the risk factors for violence and related homicide.
The majority of parricides are committed by adult male offspring which usually suffering from psychotic illness, usually schizophrenia and the victim is usually the father, juveniles who kill parents are rare than adults. While fathers kill their children in most cases of filicide out of low socioeconomic status and substance abuse, while women who kill their children have high incidences of psychosis, social isolation, depression and low socioeconomic status.
Siblicides only accounted for approximately 1.12% of all homicides and up till now these homicides are understudied due to scarcity of incidents, the few studies suggest that murder here are often the result of sibilingrivalry, stress, unresolved conflicts, mental illness and alcohol and substance abuse.
There are many disorders associated with domestic homicide aggressive behavior which may be the presenting symptom of this disorder and indicate immediate intervention and management, from these disorders :- (a) Psychiatric disorders,(b) primary brain diseases like ( encephalitis, brain tumors and epilepsy) and (c) systemic diseases like ( hypoxia, electrolyte imbalance and hypoglycemia), most of these causes are treatable and reversible.
Domestic homicide is an extreme form of domestic violence; causes of domestic homicide have reflected a variety of factors e.g. biological, psychological, social and cultural factors.
Recently, domestic homicide shows widely spread serious problem as it comes among the top 10 leading causes of death for men, women, and children between the ages of 1 and 44 years.
Domestic homicide includes many types,the most common type is uxoricide (spousal or intimate partner homicide),and it represents the most prevalent cases of murder within the family. Other types include parricide, the murder of a parent by an offspring or a stepchild; filicide, the murder of a child by a parent; and siblicide, the killing of one sibling by another; and familicide, the killing of one's whole family.
Killing weapons here have been widely variable, including guns, sharp instruments (knives), strangulation, firearms, bodily force and blunt objects.
Gender differences in domestic aggression and homicide are very noticeable, approximately half of spousal homicide offenders are wives, and about 5 million women per year are reported to be assaulted by their male partners, while homicide victim rates for women are still much higher than male rates, with a four to one rate.
Also, 40-70 % of women who have been murdered were killed by their intimate partners, usually in the context of an abusive relationship, whereas only 6 % of male homicide victims were killed by their wives or girlfriends, and large number (42 %) committed suicide after homicide, with most ending in the completed suicide of the perpetrator.
As regards the closely correlation between partner violence and homicide and alcohol and substance abuse , studies found that men who consumed alcohol were 3 times likely to commit violent acts against their partners and also women with alcohol and substance abuse show high rates of F.M.P.V.
Most researchers report high increase in the domestic homicide rate recent years, while other researchers record decrease in domestic violence homicide rates due to mandatory jail sentences for misdemeanor domestic violence homicide offenders, laws restricting access to firearms by abusers under restraining orders reduce IPHs.
The incidence of domestic homicide is somewhat higher in rural areas than in urban areas, the incidences of these crimes were higher in upper Egypt governorates (48.2 %) than frontier governorates (11.5 %).
Homicide here is closely related to age, the rate of violence and homicide for couples in the 18 to 29 age group are highest, studies considered the age group 20 -40 is the nosy age and one of the risk factors for violence and related homicide.
The majority of parricides are committed by adult male offspring which usually suffering from psychotic illness, usually schizophrenia and the victim is usually the father, juveniles who kill parents are rare than adults. While fathers kill their children in most cases of filicide out of low socioeconomic status and substance abuse, while women who kill their children have high incidences of psychosis, social isolation, depression and low socioeconomic status.
Siblicides only accounted for approximately 1.12% of all homicides and up till now these homicides are understudied due to scarcity of incidents, the few studies suggest that murder here are often the result of sibilingrivalry, stress, unresolved conflicts, mental illness and alcohol and substance abuse.
There are many disorders associated with domestic homicide aggressive behavior which may be the presenting symptom of this disorder and indicate immediate intervention and management, from these disorders :- (a) Psychiatric disorders,(b) primary brain diseases like ( encephalitis, brain tumors and epilepsy) and (c) systemic diseases like ( hypoxia, electrolyte imbalance and hypoglycemia), most of these causes are treatable and reversible.
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| Title | Domestic homicide | Other Titles | القتل داخل الاسره | Authors | Nourhan Kamal Mahmud Khamis | Issue Date | 2014 |
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