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Women more likely to plan spouse killing | Adelaide Now
WOMEN are more likely than men to plan the murder of a partner before they act, a university study suggests.
Griffith University's Australian Homicide Project interviewed 211 killers from Queensland, NSW and Western Australia to find out why they committed the crime.
Professor Paul Mazerolle says one of the study's aims is to understand why people kill their partners.
Of the 55 people interviewed who had killed their spouses, only about one in seven were women, he said.
But about half of those women had plotted their partner's murder.
He said only a quarter of the men had intended to kill.
Often, they had intended only to hurt their spouse but went too far.
Prof Mazerolle says men are more likely to lash out after feeling helpless in a relationship.
WOMEN are more likely than men to plan the murder of a partner before they act, a university study suggests.
Griffith University's Australian Homicide Project interviewed 211 killers from Queensland, NSW and Western Australia to find out why they committed the crime.
Professor Paul Mazerolle says one of the study's aims is to understand why people kill their partners.
Of the 55 people interviewed who had killed their spouses, only about one in seven were women, he said.
But about half of those women had plotted their partner's murder.
He said only a quarter of the men had intended to kill.
Often, they had intended only to hurt their spouse but went too far.
Prof Mazerolle says men are more likely to lash out after feeling helpless in a relationship.