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It’s widely held that women are more likely than men to be victims of domestic violence that has a sexual component.

In escalating spousal conflicts, it’s also often noted that women tend to endure the most severe kinds of physical violence, including homicide, in part because men are often stronger.

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What is not so well known, however, is that males are more likely to be recipients of different kinds of spousal violence — such as slapping, kicking, biting and hitting with the fist. Men also more often experience emotional abuse when their jealous spouses try to limit their contact with friends or family, or demand to know who they were with and where they were at all times.

Simon Fraser University criminologist Alexandra Lysova has been collaborating with top researchers around the world since she began almost two decades ago to investigate spousal violence in her home city of Vladivostok, Russia.