Date of Award

Summer 2007

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Sociology & Criminal Justice

Program/Concentration

Applied Sociology

Committee Director

Garland White

Committee Member

Dianne C. Carmody

Committee Member

Bernadette J. Holmes

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.S62 P34 2007

Abstract

Using data collected from the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (Block 2000), this study looked at female perpetrated intimate partner homicide. The purpose of this study was to identify what factors, if any, differentiate between abused women who kill versus abused women who do not kill their intimate partners. Through conducting this study, several factors such as substance abuse, support networks and severe violence were compared between abused women who kill their intimate partner versus those who were abused women but did not kill. It was found that severe abuse, substance abuse by the abuser and the abused person were highly correlated with homicide.

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DOI

10.25777/ctrm-5091

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