ABSTRACT
Some studies have shown that controlling behaviour is linked to partner physical aggression in both sexes and that other risk/protective factors are broadly similar in men and women. C. Corradi and H. Stockl reviewed partner physical aggression homicide figures for ten European nations including those from the UK cited, although the samples were small for most countries. The historical and fictional accounts indicate that women’s perpetration of partner physical aggression was present in former patriarchal societies, even though it was less common than it is in modern times when women have more power outside the home. The earliest awareness of partner violence as a social problem in modern Western nations came from accounts of “battered women”, particularly those who were housed in refuges for victims of domestic violence. The available statistics for the proportions of men and women committing partner homicides show a wide variation, depending on the time and place.
