[Uxoricide in Italy]

The Authors, after having studied the specific literature on the subject, publish data regarding 27 women who were victims of uxoricide. The adoption of a victimological viewpoint permits hypothesizing that: 1) it is sociological factors that seem to be fundamental to determining the classes of the women who are more subject to this specific danger; 2) bio-physio-psychological factors seem to be relevant to determining which women, within the class subject to this specific danger, are unable to recognize their danger, or, though having recognized it, are unable to avoid it; 3) factors extraneous to the victim, inherent in the personality structure of the perpetrators of the crime and in their cultural values (as well as in the various meanings that the uxoricide, at both the conscious and the unconscious levels, may take on for the man when he is committing it) appear to be, in most cases, determining for any specific event.