This book is the first American study of domestic homicide to include in-depth interviews with killers, and it yields some important insights. Adams painstakingly examines the lives of men who kill their intimate partners and identifies five different types of wife killers, each with distinctive patterns of behavior within intimate relationships, including how they meet and woo women, what they expect of intimate partners, how they respond to resistance, and ultimately, what motivates them to kill. Detailed case examples are used to illustrate key patterns of abuse, escalation, and punishment.

The author also interviewed victims of attempted homicide, who “stood in” for the murder victims and offered a critical perspective as those who survived shootings, stabbings, and strangulations.

Published 2007, 288 pages

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