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32 Am. J. Crim. L. 291 (2004-2005)
An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Domestic Violence: Practical and Policy Implications

handle is hein.journals/ajcl32 and id is 299 raw text is: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Domestic
Violence: Practical and Policy Implications
Molly J. Walker Wilson*
Table of Contents
I.      Introduction  ............................................................................................... 292
II.     The  Evolutionary   Perspective .................................................................... 295
A.   An Overview                   ......................................        295
B.    Evolutionists' Clash with Feminism .................................................. 296
C.   Why Evolutionary Theory is Useful .................................................. 297
III.    Paternity  A ssurance  ................................................................................... 298
IV .    V iolence  Towards W   om  en  ........................................................................ 300
A .   T he  Statistics  ..................................................................................... 300
1.  N on-fatal A buse  .......................................................................... 300
2.  Fatal Abuse   (U xoricide) .............................................................. 301
B.   Historical Roots of Male Proprietariness ........................................... 302
C.    Why Men Kill Intimates: An Evolutionary Explanation ........ 303
D.    Sexual Jealousy and Violence--Characteristics of the Woman ........ 305
1.  A g e  .............................................................................................. 3 0 5
2. Being the Mother of Children Not Related to the Male .............. 306
3. Threats to Leave or Actual Departure ......................................... 307
E.    Sexual Jealousy and Violence--Characteristics of the Man ............. 309
V .     Child  A buse  and  Infanticide ...................................................................... 310
A .   G eneral  Statistics  ............................................................................... 310
B.   Evolutionary Explanations for Child Maltreatment: The
Stepparent D  ilem m a  .......................................................................... 311
1.  Stepparent  Statistics  .................................................................... 312
2.  Parental Feeling    ...................................................................... 313
3. Reproductive Access Theory ....................................................... 314
4. What Happens in Human Stepparent Families ............ 315
VI.     How Evolutionary Analysis Can Improve Domestic Abuse Prevention
M easures .................................................................................................... 3 16
* Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law; J.D., University of Virginia School
of Law; Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Virginia.

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