SOC 2760 Chapter Notes -18 Months, Victims Family, Stepfamily
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The extended suicide : term coined by palmero, males who were threatened by their female partners intimate partners posed the greatest risk of homicide suicide, the act is suicide, but the partner is killed in their self destruction, kills the female out of anger/depression over perceived betrayal, he commits suicide after killing his extended self , used also to describe the older murders with younger victims, altruistic suicide often used by the depressed or mentally unstable, these people commit suicide to avoid their partner from facing the world unprotected and defenceless . The sample: intimate femicide is the killing of a woman by her intimate male partner, including current or former legal spouses, common law partners or boyfriends, taken from both official and unofficial sources, in a period of 21 years 1206 women age 15+ were murdered, 700 cases studied in ontario.