Re: [at-l] Bear or Not-bear?

[DGAMREDFOX@aol.com]

Statistically, it is just common sense to suspect an estranged spouse when a 
woman is killed.  The sad but true (and slightly dated) data copied below 
from http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/sdvv.txt  demonstrate why that is 
true:

U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics

Special Report

Sex Differences in Violent Victimization, 1994

September 1997, NCJ-164508

* During 1994 men experienced almost 6.6 million violent
victimizations; women experienced  5 million.  For every 3
violent victimizations of males, there were 2 of females.

* Females were more likely to be victimized by persons whom they
knew (62% or 2,981,479 victimizations) while males were more
likely to be victimized by strangers (63%, or 3,949,285).

* In 1994 for every 5 violent victimizations of a female by an
intimate, there was 1 of a male.  Intimates committed over
900,000 victimizations of females and about 167,000
victimizations of males.

* For homicides in which the victim-offender relationship was
known, an intimate killed 31% of female victims age 12 or older
(1,394) and 4% of male victims 12 or older (669).

* Women separated from their spouses had a violent victimization
rate (128 per 1,000) over 12 times that of separated men (79 per
1,000), divorced men (77 per 1,000), and divorced women (71 per
1,000). 

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