RISK FACTORS FOR HOMICIDE IN VIOLENT INTIMATE RELATIONS

描述(改编自《调查者摘要》)：凶杀案是 对妇女最严重的暴力形式，具有明显不同的动力 从男人之间的凶杀案中。他杀是死因中的第一位 非洲裔美国妇女和导致早逝的第七大原因 这个国家的女性总体来说。青春期和成年女性最常 被丈夫、情人、前夫或情人杀害并遭受身体虐待 女性被亲密伴侣杀害的风险最大。一个 杀害现任或前任亲密伴侣的女性人数大致相同 每年都有伴侣被他们杀害，但虐待妻子的人最多 这种形式的杀人案也经常出现前兆。为了防止这种情况的发生 暴力形式，亲密伴侣杀人需要的特定危险因素 待定。这项建议将建立在PI之前在#年的研究基础上 进行病例对照研究的地区，以调查 危险评估中列出的因素，这是一种具有一定先验性的工具 信度和结构效度的证据。其他风险因素 由临床和最近的研究证据提出的建议也将得到检验 多城市病例对照设计。所有凶杀案的警方记录 涉及13岁以上妇女作为受害者的将被单独检查 在7个地理位置不同的城市(巴尔的摩、坦帕、堪萨斯城、密苏里州 以及堪萨斯州、西雅图、芝加哥和休斯顿)。涉及妇女参与的案件 亲密伴侣杀人案(夫妻、情人、分居/离婚夫妇) 将对已确定的风险因素进行检查。家庭成员或女性 朋友幸存者将被要求提供补充信息。女性 与年龄范围、邻居相同的亲密关系中的控制者 和亲密伴侣暴力史(是/否)将通过调查选择 电话。大约250个病例和250个对照将用于 Logistic回归分析。此外，250名被枪杀的女性 亲密伴侣(几乎是杀人犯)也将被比作250人 控制。30个未遂杀女案的随机子集也将是 深入访谈，以确定其他风险因素并获得 对背景的更多洞察。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): Homicide is the most serious form of violence against women, with clearly different dynamics from homicide between men. Homicide is the leading cause of death for African-American women and the seventh leading cause of premature death for women overall in this country. Adolescent and adult women are most often killed by a husband, lover, or ex-husband or lover and physically abused women are at most risk to be killed by an intimate partner. An approximately equal number of women kill their current or former intimate partners each year as are killed by them, but wife abuse is the most frequent precursor of this form of homicide also. In order to prevent this form of violence, specific risk factors for intimate partner homicide need to be established. This proposal will build on the PI's prior research in the area with a case control study to investigate the relative risk of factors listed on the Danger Assessment, an instrument with some prior evidence of reliability and construct validity. Other risk factors suggested by both clinical and recent research evidence will also be tested in a multi city case control design. Police records of all homicides involving women over the age of 13 as victims will be individually examined in 7 geographically varied cities (Baltimore, Tampa, Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, Seattle, Chicago, and Houston). Cases of women involved in intimate partner homicide (husband-wife, lover, estranged/divorced couple) will be examined for the identified risk factors. Family member or female friend survivors will be called for supplementary information. Female controls in an intimate relationship with the same age range, neighborhood and history of intimate partner violence (yes/no) will be selected by survey phone calls. Approximately 250 cases and 250 controls will be used for logistic regression analysis. In addition, 250 women who have been shot by an intimate partner ("almost" homicides) also will be compared with the 250 controls. A random subset of 30 of the attempted femicides will also be interviewed in depth to determine additional risk factors and to gain additional insight into context.