ABSTRACT
While it is well established that males account for most homicide offenders (Wolfgang 1958; Wallace 1986; Silverman and Kennedy 1987; Falk 1990; Johnson and Robinson 1992), perhaps less well known is that slightly over half of all homicides are likely to be male-on-male events, that is, involving men both as offenders and victims. In a national study in Canada, homicides with both male victims and male offenders accounted for 53 per cent of all homicides (Silverman and Kennedy 1987), while an investigation in New South Wales (Australia) reports a virtually identical 54 per cent (Wallace 1986).
