University of Haifa, Israel.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 May;36(9-10):NP5148-NP5166. doi: 10.1177/0886260518792983. Epub 2018 Sep 5.
Among persons who commit murder a certain percentage also commits suicide soon after, a phenomenon known as homicide-suicide. Previous studies indicate that femicide-suicide (female intimate partner homicide-suicides) accounts for the vast majority of homicide-suicide occurrences. Although the femicide-suicide phenomenon cuts across regions and societies, there is a dearth of studies of femicide-suicide patterns, motives, and characteristics among non-Western populations. A review of the few available findings about femicide-suicide in non-Western societies highlights the need for further study and corroboration of the distribution and characteristics of femicide-suicide in non-Western societies. The unique manifestations of the phenomenon among immigrant, ethnic, and social minority groups are of great relevance to Western societies currently facing the challenge of assimilating a growing number of ethnic minorities and immigrant social groups. The study aims to further our understanding of possible sociocultural variations of femicide-suicide by exploring sociodemographic and criminological patterns among non-Western social groups. It presents an analysis of national empirical findings of femicide-suicide across various ethnic and sociocultural groups in Israel in the years 2005-2015, excluding analysis of cases that occurred in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. The characteristics and patterns that are the focus of this study include a sociocultural ethnic profile of the perpetrator, and various criminological characteristics such as homicide and suicide location, homicide and suicide method, and homicide motive. Femicide-suicide events, victims, and perpetrators were compared by calculating frequency distributions and population-based incidence rates. The findings suggest that the distribution of the phenomenon and its criminological characteristics vary across immigrant and ethnic minority groups. Further research is needed to validate the study's empirical observations and to explore the various manifestations of the phenomenon across non-Western ethnic, social, religious, and cultural groups.
在实施谋杀的人群中，有一定比例的人会在不久后自杀，这种现象被称为杀人-自杀。先前的研究表明，杀妻自杀（女性亲密伴侣杀人-自杀）占杀人-自杀事件的绝大多数。尽管杀妻自杀现象跨越了地区和社会，但对于非西方人群的杀妻自杀模式、动机和特征，研究却很少。对非西方社会中少数可用的杀妻自杀研究结果进行回顾，突显了需要进一步研究和证实非西方社会中杀妻自杀的分布和特征。移民、族裔和社会少数群体中该现象的独特表现形式与当前面临同化越来越多族裔少数群体和移民社会群体挑战的西方国家息息相关。本研究旨在通过探讨非西方社会群体中的社会人口学和犯罪学模式，进一步了解杀妻自杀可能存在的社会文化差异。本研究呈现了对 2005 年至 2015 年期间以色列各个族裔和社会文化群体中杀妻自杀的国家经验研究结果的分析，不包括对发生在加沙、西岸和东耶路撒冷的案件的分析。本研究关注的特征和模式包括犯罪者的社会文化族裔特征以及各种犯罪学特征，如杀人及自杀地点、杀人及自杀方法和杀人动机。通过计算频率分布和基于人口的发生率，对杀人-自杀事件、受害者和犯罪者进行了比较。研究结果表明，该现象的分布及其犯罪学特征在移民和少数民族群体中存在差异。需要进一步研究来验证研究的实证观察结果，并探讨非西方族裔、社会、宗教和文化群体中该现象的各种表现形式。
