Partner Killing
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Partner Killing
Introduction
Melissa Costero, Daniel Saavedra and Isaac Tourgeman Albizu University – Miami Campus, Miami, FL, USA
This chapter aims to tackle the topic of intimate partner killings (IPK) and provide a comprehensive overview of the literature and research up to date. We will also be looking at many variables that have been discussed throughout different forms of literature and linking them together. Several of these variables include the timelines, national databases available, partner types, relationship types, relationship status, age discrepancies, location most likely to occur, and type of weapons used. Lastly, we will look at corollary victims, demographic data, motivation for killings, personality traits, neurological factors, evolutionary factors, and previous history data for intimate partner violence.
Synonyms Matricide; Uxoricide
Definition Partner Killing – When one commits the act of killing their partner of whom they have a consensual relationship in the form of intimate, romantic, or sexual context. Partners may be identified within the following relationships: marriage, committed relationship (cohabitating and noncohabitating), casual dating, “friends with benefits,” or strict sexual partners. Throughout this chapter, we will be discussing the topic of intimate partner killings (IPK) using the term “Paricide(s).” This term is not yet standardized but was derived from the root origins of “Partner-Par” and “Killing-Cide.” Related terms include Femicide – “deliberate killing of women and girls because they are female” (Campbell 2018); Matricide – killing of one’s mother (Heide 2013); Uxoricide – killing of wife by husband (Mize et al. 2011).
The Evolution of Paricide Paricide is an act seen often in history due to motivations often driven by intense emotions, whether that be rage, jealousy, or fear (Mize et al. 2009). Dating back to the era of Cleopatra in 41 B.C., she was known for killing her husbands as a means to gain power or the upper hand in war (Andrews 2019). Another famous historical figure that participated in paricide includes Queen Isabella, known as the “She-Wolf of France,” who executed her husband, motivated by revenge due to her husband’s affairs. In addition, Catherine the Great threw her husband in jail
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for execution due to the issues of power and relationship conflict (Meares 2017). Considering Darwin’s sexual selection theory, Douglass et al. (2020) suggest, “The essence of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection pits males and females in competition, with each other (intersexual competition) and with themselves (intrasexual competition), in a way that is believed to have far-reaching consequences in how each sex has evolved.” Also, Baumeister et al. (2001), Ellis and Symons (1990), Jonason and Fisher (2009), and Mitchell et al. (2018) indicate men have evolved a stronger lib
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