Flutterby™! : When did you stop killing your spouse?

Sociological Images: Have you stopped killing your spouse? is a repost of the same entry over at Montclair SocioBlog, a look at the USDOJ statistics on "intimate homicide".

In the 1970s, almost as many men were killed by their wives as women were killed by their husbands. Both numbers have gone down, but the number of women killed by their husbands has only gone down a little bit, the number of men killed by their wives has dropped amazingly. Interesting, as I scroll down that page a bit, it looks like the vast majority of the drop has been with black men as victims.