RISK FACTORS FOR HOMICIDE IN VIOLENT INTIMATE RELATIONS

描述（改编自调查员摘要）：杀人是 暴力侵害妇女最严重的形式，有明显不同的动态 男人之间的谋杀 谋杀是导致死亡的主要原因 非洲裔美国妇女和第七大过早死亡原因， 在这个国家的所有女性。 青少年和成年妇女最常 被丈夫、情人、前夫或情人杀害并受到身体虐待 妇女被亲密伴侣杀害的风险最大。 一个 大约有相同数量的女性杀死了她们现在或以前的亲密伴侣， 每年都有伴侣被他们杀害，但虐待妻子是最多的。 也是这种杀人方式的常见前兆 为了防止这种情况 暴力形式，亲密伴侣杀人的具体风险因素 有待确定。 该提案将建立在PI先前的研究基础上， 该地区的病例对照研究，以调查的相对风险， 危险评估中列出的因素，这是一种具有某些先验知识的工具， 信度和结构效度。 其他风险因素 临床和最近的研究证据也将进行测试 在多城市病例对照设计中。 所有凶杀案的警方记录 涉及13岁以上妇女受害者的案件， 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 和堪萨斯、西雅图、芝加哥和休斯顿）。 妇女参与性暴力案件 亲密伴侣杀人案（夫妻、情人、分居/离婚夫妇） 将检查已确定的风险因素。 家庭成员或女性 幸存者朋友将被要求提供补充信息。 女性 控制在同一年龄范围内的亲密关系，邻居 和亲密伴侣暴力史（是/否）将通过调查选择 电话 将使用约250例病例和250例对照， logistic回归分析 此外，250名妇女被枪杀， 亲密伴侣（“几乎”杀人）也将与250起 对照 一个随机的30个企图杀害女性的子集也将被 深入访谈，以确定其他风险因素， 对上下文的额外洞察力。

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.