Knowledge Base

Prepared by: R. Lillianne Macias, PhD Krista Grajo, MA Rasheeda O’Connor, MA

Intimate partner homicide (IPH), the killing of a spouse or romantic partner, remains a pressing and understudied social issue within Latin@ communities in the United States. To help address gaps in current knowledge of IPH in Latin@ communities, the goals of this report are to:

• Summarize the recent peer-reviewed literature and national reports on IPH in Latin@ communities
• Analyze state-level fatality review processes for practices that support the identification of racial, ethnic, and other IPH disparities
• Conduct a multi-state fatality review of IPH among Latin@ individuals

To cite this report

Esperanza United. (2023). A fatality review of Latin@ intimate partner homicides in the United States. [Report].