McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 Oct;36(19-20):9277-9298. doi: 10.1177/0886260519867151. Epub 2019 Aug 2.
Male depression has been recognized as an important factor in some cases of intimate partner violence but there is a paucity of literature connecting depression and intimate partner homicide (IPH). This retrospective study provides a preliminary analysis that distinguished depressed from nondepressed perpetrators of IPH from a sample of 135 cases analyzed by a coroner's homicide death review committee in Ontario, Canada. Depressed perpetrators were more likely to commit homicide-suicide and had almost 1.5 times the number of risk factors present than nondepressed perpetrators. Consistent with the existing literature, the results indicated that depressed perpetrators were significantly older, more likely to commit homicide-suicide than homicide only, more likely to have prior threats or attempts of suicide, more likely to have been abused or witnessed domestic violence as a child than nondepressed perpetrators and more likely to exhibit sexual jealousy. The implications for these findings are outlined in terms of training of mental health professionals and public awareness about the potential lethality of domestic violence.
男性抑郁已被认为是某些亲密伴侣暴力案件的一个重要因素，但将抑郁与亲密伴侣杀人（IPH）联系起来的文献却很少。本回顾性研究提供了初步分析，从加拿大安大略省的法医凶杀案审查委员会分析的 135 个案例中，区分了抑郁和非抑郁的 IPH 犯罪者。抑郁的犯罪者更有可能实施杀人-自杀，并且存在的风险因素几乎是不抑郁的犯罪者的 1.5 倍。与现有文献一致的是，结果表明抑郁的犯罪者年龄明显更大，更有可能实施杀人-自杀而不是单纯杀人，更有可能有过先前的自杀威胁或企图，更有可能在儿童时期遭受过虐待或目睹过家庭暴力，更有可能表现出性嫉妒。这些发现的意义在于培训心理健康专业人员和提高公众对家庭暴力潜在致命性的认识。
