it seems nobody is keeping a tab on the number of homicides world wide that are seperated by gender, and having factored in spouces/bf/gf etc. as the cause...
but here is some information on "family murders" and who kills who and the consequences each gender typically faces..
According to the Department of Justice study "Murder in the family":
- Women account for 40% of defendants in Spousal murders.
- Women are more likely to kill their children than are men.
And according to Alan Dershowitz's response to the study, the study's author didn't "compile" the data on whether women were treated more leniently than men when it came to spousal murder. He eventually had the author of the study forward him the "compiled" data, which according to him showed:
- Wives who kill their husbands are acquited 12.9% of the time, while men who kill their wives are acquited just 1.4% of the time.
- Women convicted of killing their husbands received an average of 6 years in prison, while men convicted of killing their wives received on average, 17 years in prison.
- 16% of women convicted of killing their husbands were granted probation; while just 1.6% of men who kill their wives were granted probation.
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When all family members (including children) are included in the study of victims, 55.5% of the time, males are the ones who are killed; 44.5% of the time, it is females who are the victims of family murder. (Granted, this isn't a case of female on male crime...it's just suggesting
that saying that women are most often the victims of family murders is factually incorrect)
So how many women kill their husbands in a year? Apparently 40% of spousal murders are committed by wives. Though husbands are more likely to kill their wives than is the opposite case, the bottom line is that it's not as slanted as you might think...and when women do commit the murders, they are given special treatment by the justice system.
Source:
[URL='http://www.uiowa.edu/~030116/158/article...[/QUOTE']http://www.uiowa.edu/~030116/158/article...[/URL]