Journal article
Killing the competition
Abstract
Sex- and age-specific rates of killing unrelated persons of one’s own sex were computed for Canada (1974–1983), England/Wales (1977–1986), Chicago (1965–1981), and Detroit (1972) from census information and data archives of all homicides known to police. Patterns in relation to sex and age were virtually identical among the four samples, although the rates varied enormously (from 3.7 per million citizens per annum in England/Wales to 216.3 in …
Authors
Daly M; Wilson M
Journal
Human Nature, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 81–107
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
March 1990
DOI
10.1007/bf02692147
ISSN
1045-6767