Correlates of Intimate Partner Homicide among Male Suicide Decedents with Known Intimate Partner Problems

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• Alternative Title:
  Suicide Life Threat Behav
• Personal Author:
  Logan, Joseph E. ; Ertl, Allison ; Bossarte, Robert
• Description:
  Objective
  
  Intimate partner (IP) problems are risk factors for suicide among men. However, there is little understanding of why some male suicide decedents who had such problems killed their partners before death (i.e., ‘IP homicide-suicide’) while most of these decedents did not. To inform prevention efforts, this study identified correlates of IP homicide among male suicide decedents with known IP problems.
  
  Methods
  
  We examined IP homicide correlates among male suicide decedents aged 18+ years who had known IP problems using 2003–2015 National Violent Death Reporting System data. Prevalence odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated for demographic, incident, and circumstance variables. IP homicide-suicide narratives were examined to identify additional prevention opportunities.
  
  Results
  
  An estimated 1,504 (5.0%) of 30,259 male suicide decedents who had IP problems killed their partner. IP homicide-suicide perpetration was positively correlated with suicide by firearm and precipitating civil legal problems but negatively correlated with mental health/substance abuse treatment. An estimated 33.7% of IP homicide-suicides occurred during a breakup; 21.9% of IP homicide-suicide perpetrators had domestic violence histories.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Connections between the criminal justice and mental health systems as well as stronger enforcement of laws prohibiting firearm possession among domestic violence offenders may prevent IP homicide-suicides.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Article Domestic Violence Female Homicide Homicide-suicide Humans Interpersonal Relations Intimate Partner Violence Law Enforcement Male Murder-suicide Preventive Psychiatry Risk Factors Suicide United States

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• Source:
  Suicide Life Threat Behav. 49(6):1693-1706
• Pubmed ID:
  31187883
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6906220
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; U54 GM104942/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  49
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9091ca4ed4d00ed26b43fcae06beef80e23609aa3ce5057305bfe3b042f32340
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/83570/cdc_83570_DS1.pdf
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