Abstract:
To know the motivating factors accounting for the murder of husbands by their wives. This research is a qualitative research. Anthropological fieldwork techniques such as in-depth interview, participant observation etc., were used to collect data from 10 different cases and used content analysis to analyze and describe cases study. The results of the study about the motivating factors accounting for the murder of husbands by their wives found that the average age of samples was 38.3 while their husbands were 42.9. The spouses mostly lived in the north and stayed still in that region after marriage. Their education levels were primary and lower, of course, the same level as their husbands. For this reason, their professions were inevitably agriculturist and hired man. Mostly, wives killed their husbands in their own residences between 06.01-12.00 pm. by used Knives, : something in house and pistol belonged to their husbands. Heads and chests were the target part of body that wives shot their husbands to death by guns while neck and left breast were cut or stabbed by knife through heart and lung. The substantial motivating factors that caused wives commit murder their husbands were sudden and accumulated depression of their income and debt, mental and physical assault by their husband and also disappointment in marriage lifes. More than that, experience of violence in their own families and negative attitude toward patriarch of husband were the important factors too. However, the violence from the families of orientation and terrorized sex from their husbands were not found as significant factors.