Gender Differences Between Victims And Women

Although victimization differs from offenders, there are certain things that typically go along with women who commit murder/manslaughter. Victims of this type of crime are typically male, the ages of these victims are unknown but among the victims that are known, many were under the age of 16. The age difference differs by victim gender. Victim-offender relationship differ substantially from male offender and female offenders. According to Table 9 of SONY DOCS page 10, victims tend to be children of the offender or someone who is well known to the offender and is living with them. In the 1986 research, 35% of homicide victims were either married or living with the offender.
Since victims are usually male they do not have any vulnerability
but children, on the other hand, have a different story. According to BJS women offender, between 1976 and 1997 parents and stepparents murdered nearly 11,000 children, mothers and stepmothers committed about half of these child murders and sons and stepsons accounted for 52% of those killed by mothers and 57% of those killed by fathers. Mothers were responsible for a higher share of children killed during infancy while fathers were more likely to have been responsible for the murders of children age 8 or older.