Reply #16: ya got me [View All]

[iverglas]

I'm pretty sure that it's the case in Canada, since that's where I am and that's where I hear it talked about ... and that's where a client of mine was killed a few years ago by the husband her sister was trying to leave.

(edited to note: the deaths of people like my client and the mother in the incident under discussion here of course don't show up in the statistics for intimate-partner homicide, but they're actually part of the same phenomenon)

I'd bet it's pretty universal.

Yeah, here's the Cdn story:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060601/abused_women_shelters_060601/20060601?hub=Canada

Women fleeing abuse are at high risk for murder

Updated Thu. Jun. 1 2006 11:32 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

More than three-quarters of women coming to shelters to flee abuse are at risk of being murdered, according to a new study by YWCA Canada.

... "We knew that shelters save lives. We had no idea that women were at such high risk, though," said research professor Leslie Tutty from the University of Calgary.

The study, "Effective Practices in Sheltering Women Leaving Violence in Intimate Relationships - Phase II," is based on surveys by residents, and interviews as they entered and exited the shelters.

In Canada:

In 2003, 64 women were murdered by their male partner, according to Statistics Canada.

Between 1994 and 2003, 630 women were murdered by a spouse. Cause of death included shooting stabbing, strangulation and beating, said StatsCan.

The 64 in 2003 is out of a total of 548 homicides. When you stop and think, that's pretty appalling: nearly 1 out of 8 homicides were women killed by intimate partners.

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/040728/d040728a.htm