Male-on-Female Sexual Homicides in Sweden, 1990 to 2013: A Population-Based Controlled Study of Incidents, Victims, and Offenders.

To date, systematic studies of sexual homicides from Europe are scarce, in which none have been conducted in Sweden. This study aims to describe male-on-female sexual homicides in Sweden and differentiate from corresponding nonsexual homicides. Unsolved and solved sexual homicide ( = 33) cases were identified in a database containing all homicides in Sweden between 1990 and 2013 ( = 2,126), and subsequently data from forensic psychiatric evaluations were collected for convicted offenders.

Characteristics of spousal homicide perpetrators: a study of all cases of spousal homicide in Sweden 1990-1999.

Background: In Sweden 20 000 cases of assault against women are reported to the police every year.

Method: All data on the perpetrators of spousal homicide in Sweden between 1990 and 1999 were investigated (n = 164). A control group of all other perpetrators of homicide in Sweden during the same period, i.