When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2015 Homicide Data

General Info

Provider

Violence Policy Center (United States)

Tabulations only

Geography

United States of America (USA)

Coverage type

Country

Time period covered

January, 1996 - December, 2015

Data type

Report: Subnationally representative

Summary

The "When Men Murder Women" report series provides information on domestic violence-related homicide of women in the United States. The Violence Policy Center's (VPC) analysis report uses data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program's Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR).

Keywords

Domestic violence, Ethnicity, Firearms, Homicide, Incidence, Intimate partner violence, Legislation, Mortality, Prevalence, Race, Violence

Citation

Contributors

Violence Policy Center (United States)

Funders

Herb Block Foundation

Joyce Foundation

Publisher

Violence Policy Center (United States)

Publication year

2017

Suggested citation

Violence Policy Center (United States). When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2015 Homicide Data. Washington, DC, United States of America: Violence Policy Center (United States), 2017.