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Download full textStraus, Murray A. – 1989
Surveys of married and dating couples find that women assault their male partners at about the same rate as men assault female partners. When assaults serious enough to cause death were examined, it was found that in contrast to the extreme rarity of homicide by women outside the family, women kill their male partners at a rate that approaches the…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Family Violence, Incidence, Injuries
