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Men, women, and murder: gender-specific differences ∈ rates of fatal violence and victimization.
To study the potential differences that distinguish homicides involving women as victims or offenders from those involving men, we analyzed Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports data on homicides that occurred ∈ the United States between 1976 and 1987. Only cases that involved victims aged 15 years or older were included. Persons killed during law enforcement activity and cases ∈ which the victim's gender was not recorded were excluded. A total of 215,273 homicides were studied, 77% of which involved male victims and 23% female victims. Although the overall risk of homicide for women was substantially lower than that of men (rate ratio [RR] = 0.27), their risk of being killed by a spouse or intimate acquaintance was higher (RR = 1.23). In contrast to men, the killing of a woman by a stranger was rare (RR = 0.18). More than twice as many women were shot and killed by their husband or intimate acquaintance than were murdered by strangers using guns, knives, or any other means. Although women comprise more than half the U.S. population, they committed only 14.7% of the homicides noted during the study interval. In contrast to men, who killed nonintimate acquaintances, strangers, or victims of undetermined relationship ∈80% of cases, women killed their spouse, an intimate acquaintance, or a family member ∈60% of cases. When men killed with a gun, they most commonly shot a stranger or a non-family acquaintance.
Disponível em: http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1635092. Acesso em: novembro de 2015.
According to the text, we can state that:
I. The objective was to identify the differences between homicides involving men and women.
II. Victims who were 19 years old were not included.
III. The risk of homicide for women is higher than for men.
IV. In the USA, there are more women than men.
V. They concluded that men kill and die more.
