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Teens killing intimate partners: Jealousy, breakups, and guns
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30387
Subject(s) - jealousy , girl , psychology , intimate partner , criminology , social psychology , domestic violence , developmental psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , medical emergency
A tragic but true story involves teen romances that end up with one partner killed by the other, usually the boy killing the girl, usually during the course of a breakup or when jealousy is involved, and almost always with a gun, a recent study has found. Seven percent of homicides of adolescents are committed by intimate partners.