Sexual Rivalry and Sexual Conflict: Recurring Themes in Fatal Conflicts

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 291-310

  Wilson, Margo ^a   Daly, Martin ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

evolutionary psychology; male sexual proprietariness; sexual jealousy; sexual rivalry; uxoricide; violence against wives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013054789     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480698002003001     Document Type: Article

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