Cohabitation, marriage, and murder: Woman-killing by male romantic partners

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 284-291

  Shackelford, Todd K ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohabitation; Marriage; Partner homicide; Uxoricide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648772     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.1011     Document Type: Article

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