Intimate Partner Homicide

refers to the killing of one intimate partner by the other partner or ex-partner. Most victims are women and most perpetrators are men.

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Parricide

Parricide is defined as the killing of one's mother, father, step-parents or grandparent.

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Other Adult Family Homicide

includes the killing of one sibling by another and other family relationships (e.g. in-laws, aunts, uncles)

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Homicide-Suicide

refers to where the perpetrator kills an intimate partner or other family members (aged over 16) and then kills themselves

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Familicide

is the killing of one or several members of one's own family

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Black and Minoritised Perpetrators and/or Victims

BAME victims or perpetrators may have different experiences e.g. insecure immigration status, language, and racism

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LGBTQ+ victims or perpetrators

LGBTQ+ victims or perpetrators may have different experiences e.g. Homo/transphobia, difficulties of being seen as a victim or institutional responses

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Female perpetrators

The vast majority or perpetrators of domestic homicide are men, female perpetrators form a small minority of perpetrators.

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Substance Misuse (either victim and/or perpetrator)

Perpetrators and victims with intersecting needs such as substance misuse.

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Mental Health (either victim and/or perpetrator)

Perpetrators and victims with intersecting needs such as mental and/or substance misuse.

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