Death by domestic violence: preventing the murders and murder-suicides

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Abstract

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 Wales. In this timely book, van Wormer and Roberts describe the problem, and what they have seen and heard on the front lines with both women and men w

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Death by domestic violence: preventing the murders and murder-suicides

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Van Wormer, Katherine S.; Roberts, Albert R.

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