

These men wish to leave the relationship, but unknowingly perceive themselves as too helpless to do so, which culminates into a belief that killing the wife is the only way to be free of her. It has been suggested that men who kill their partners experience both an unconscious dependence on their wife and a resentment of her. Proponents of psychodynamic theories have offered explanations for the mechanisms underlying the occurrence of uxoricide. Psychodynamic explanations Unconscious conflict

Note that these data come from different years, and that the United States has a much higher population than the UK or Australia. Rates of uxoricide seem to fluctuate across western cultures, with approximately seven women being killed per month in England and Wales, approximately four women per month in Australia, and approximately 76 women per month in the United States. A 2013 study found that 38.6% of murders of women are committed by intimate partners. In the region of South-East Asia, 55% of all murdered women died at the hands of their partner, followed by 40% in the African region and 38% in the Americas. Per the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, white men are statistically more likely to be perpetrators of uxoricide than any other demographic between 19. However, wives were more likely to kill their husbands than vice versa in some US cities including Chicago, Detroit, Houston, and St. FBI data from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s found that for every 100 husbands who killed their wives in the United States, about 75 women killed their husbands. Of the 2340 deaths at the hands of intimate partners in the US in 2007, female victims made up 70%. Though overall rates of spousal violence and homicide in the US have declined since the 1970s, rates of uxoricide are much higher than rates of mariticide (the murder of a husband). ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Where appropriate, incorporate items into the main body of the article. Please help to clean it up to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. This article contains embedded lists that may be poorly defined, unverified or indiscriminate.
