1 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
2 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2019 Jun;34(11):2398-2413. doi: 10.1177/0886260519834987. Epub 2019 Mar 8.
This research revisited the claim that victim precipitation (VP) is especially prevalent in situations where women kill their male intimate partners. Using administrative data from the Finnish Homicide Monitor ( N =1,494), we created a typology of homicide incidents to examine variation in VP across three factors: the gender of the offender, the gender of the victim, and the intimacy of the victim-offender relationship. The results from regression models demonstrated strong support for the assumption that killings by women of their male intimate partners are more likely to have been victim precipitated than other types of homicide. This homicide type stood out as having the strongest association with each measure of VP included in the analysis. We did not observe statistically significant differences in VP among other homicide types. For example, we did not observe gender differences in VP in homicides that did not involve intimate partners. This pattern of results contradicts prior evidence suggesting that VP is a general feature of female-perpetrated killings, independent of the gender of the victim and the intimacy of the victim-offender relationship. As such, the present study underscores the importance of replication in studies of interpersonal violence. Theoretically, the results support the gender-partner interaction hypothesis over gender differences hypothesis of VP.
这项研究重新审视了一个说法，即受害者诱发（VP）在女性杀害其男性亲密伴侣的情况下尤为普遍。我们使用来自芬兰杀人案监测系统（N=1494）的行政数据，创建了一个杀人事件的类型学，以检验 VP 在三个因素上的变化：犯罪者的性别、受害者的性别以及受害者-犯罪者关系的亲密程度。回归模型的结果强烈支持了这样的假设，即女性杀害其男性亲密伴侣的行为更有可能是受害者诱发的，而不是其他类型的杀人案。这种杀人类型与分析中包含的每个 VP 衡量标准都有着最强的关联。我们没有观察到其他杀人类型的 VP 存在统计学上的显著差异。例如，我们没有观察到在不涉及亲密伴侣的杀人案中 VP 存在性别差异。这一结果模式与先前的证据相矛盾，后者表明 VP 是女性实施杀人行为的一个普遍特征，与受害者的性别和受害者-犯罪者关系的亲密程度无关。因此，本研究强调了在人际暴力研究中进行复制的重要性。从理论上讲，这些结果支持了 VP 的性别-伴侣相互作用假设，而不是性别差异假设。
