National trends in intimate partner homicides: Explaining declines in Canada, 1976 to 2001

Violence Against Women

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 276-306

  Dawson, Myrna ^a   Pottie Bunge, Valerie ^b   Balde, Thierno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Declines; Gender; Intimate partner homicide; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CANADA; DIVORCE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; CANADA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIVORCE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 59949093785     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801208330433     Document Type: Article

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