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Femicide: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective

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Feminism and Evolutionary Biology

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Homicide is gendered: The circumstances in which men and women kill and are killed tend to be quite different, as are the demographic patterns of risk and the apparent motivating factors. Whereas most male-victim homicides occur in the context of competitive conflicts among men, women almost never kill women in similar contexts (Daly and Wilson, 1988b, 1990; Wilson and Daly, 1985). Instead, killings of women are overwhelmingly perpetrated by men, and in the great majority of these cases, the fact that the victim was a woman is relevant to the reasons why she was killed. Most notably, a large proportion of slain women are killed by husbands (Wilson and Daly, 1992c; Wilson, Daly, and Wright, 1993) and many others are killed in contexts suggesting elements of sexual motivation.

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Wilson, M., Daly, M., Scheib, J.E. (1997). Femicide: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective. In: Gowaty, P.A. (eds) Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_18

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