I forgot to add, where did you get that number for the percentage of women that commit spousal killings? That seems to be completely incorrect in Canada.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-...estdm2-eng.htm
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Women continue to be more likely than men to be victims of spousal homicide. In 2009, the rate of spousal homicide against women was about three times higher than that for men.
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In the United States, however, it's closer to half, or at least was, but it's an important qualification.
http://psych.mcmaster.ca/dalywilson/WhoKills.pdf
Quote:
A hitherto unremarked peculiarity of homicide in the United States is that
the number of women who kill their husbands relative to the number of men
who kill their wives (the spousal SROK) is exceptionally high. In Canada,
for example, 812 wives and 248 husbands were slain between 1974 and 1983
(Daly and Wilson, 1988a, 1988b), yielding a spousal SROK of just 31p
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Again, the misrepresentation of statistics is definitely
not the way to go about raising awareness for this issue (and don't get me wrong, I do believe it is an issue; the statistics bear it out to one degree or another, though they are often times slightly misleading when it comes to severity and the under-reporting of the crimes by both genders).