The two most common causes of spousal abuse are jealousy and gain.
Jealousy
>Jealousy homicides involve an offender thinking they are at risk of losing their partner to someone else. Either the offender's lover or their rival may be the target in these homicides.
>Jealousy accounted for the largest number of the intimate partner homicides that were examined in the study (40%). These jealousy cases all included husbands who killed their wives. In court documents for these cases, jealous rage or morbid jealousy were often blamed for spurring the murders.
Gain
>The second-most-common motive for the intimate partner homicides studied was gain (23%).
>In contrast to the jealousy homicides, gain homicides were more often committed or solicited by females. >Importantly in these cases, there was no prior abuse from the women's husbands. This finding goes against how we often view female killers, because they were not a reaction to domestic violence.
Why are women more likely to kill for monetary gain while men kill out of passion? Is there any research into what makes each gender tick that could answer this question?
Jealousy
>Jealousy homicides involve an offender thinking they are at risk of losing their partner to someone else. Either the offender's lover or their rival may be the target in these homicides.
>Jealousy accounted for the largest number of the intimate partner homicides that were examined in the study (40%). These jealousy cases all included husbands who killed their wives. In court documents for these cases, jealous rage or morbid jealousy were often blamed for spurring the murders.
Gain
>The second-most-common motive for the intimate partner homicides studied was gain (23%).
>In contrast to the jealousy homicides, gain homicides were more often committed or solicited by females. >Importantly in these cases, there was no prior abuse from the women's husbands. This finding goes against how we often view female killers, because they were not a reaction to domestic violence.
Why are women more likely to kill for monetary gain while men kill out of passion? Is there any research into what makes each gender tick that could answer this question?
