Causes and Reasons of Tehran Domestic Homicides

Homicide is one of the most notorious crimes that has always bothered all societies. Several motivations may exist behind committing such crime. In domestic homicides which are the severest type of domestic crimes, factors such as financial conflicts, illegal relationships, drug abuse… may appear to the lead to crime.The present paper aims at studying. Homicide incidents in Tehran from 2006 to 2007. The required data were gathered from Iran Criminal investigation center and analyzed with SPSS.The results of the study showed that 39of 11117 homicide incidents were domescic.%85 of the perpetrators were male and %54 of the victims were female. 21 30- was the most repeated age of the criminals and victims.%74 of the criminals and %87 of the victims were married and both groups were low in the level of education.