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The causal cognition of wrong doing: incest, intentionality, and morality [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
The paper concerns the role of intentionality in reasoning about wrong doing. Anthropologists have claimed that, in certain non-western societies, people ignore whether an act of wrong doing is committed intentionally or accidentally.
Maurice Bloch
exaly   +6 more sources

From Criminal Law to Customary Law: Incest as a Sexual Crime

open access: yesYuridika, 2022
This study analyses several aspects of incest as a sexual crime, as well as its law enforcement, by comparing criminal law and Bugis customary law. This normative study was conducted by examining primary and secondary legal materials, which were then ...
Hijriani Hijriani, Rizki Ramadani
doaj   +2 more sources

“A daily reminder of an ugly incident  … ”: analysis of debate on rape and incest exceptions in early abortion ban legislation in six states in the southern US [PDF]

open access: yesSexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023
Abortion bans in the United States often include provisions for abortion in the circumstances of rape or incest experience. Such exceptions have been included in important legislation like the Hyde Amendment, 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, 2010 ...
Dabney P. Evans   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Characteristics and risk factors for sibling incest. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Sibling sexual behaviour, despite historical and cross-cultural incest taboos and biologically driven incest avoidance, poses a persistent problem. We tested factors theorized to be associated with sibling incest in a cross-sectional online survey of 1 ...
Kelly M Babchishin   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Characterization of Adolescent Pregnancy and Legal Abortion in Situations Involving Incest or Sexual Violence by an Unknown Aggressor

open access: yesMedicina, 2019
Background and Objectives: In pregnancies resulting from incest, the adolescent maintains close family and emotional relations with the aggressor, different from what occurs when pregnancy results from sexual violence by strangers.
Maria Misrelma Moura Bessa   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Evidence for frequent incest in a cooperatively breeding mammal

open access: yesBiology Letters, 2014
As breeding between relatives often results in inbreeding depression, inbreeding avoidance is widespread in the animal kingdom. However, inbreeding avoidance may entail fitness costs. For example, dispersal away from relatives may reduce survival.
Joseph Hoffman
exaly   +2 more sources

Evaluation of the incest cases in Hatay

open access: yesMedicine Science, 2018
Incest is traditionally defined as any sexual activity between family members who are forbidden to marry by law. The inability of apply contemporary interview techniques to the victims and the fact that the family members do not cooperate due to intimacy
Gizem Muratoglu   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Calculation of Likelihood Ratios for Incest Cases Using IBD Patterns [PDF]

open access: yesFayixue Zazhi, 2023
Objective To calculate the likelihood ratios of incest cases using identity by descent (IBD) patterns. Methods The unique IBD pattern was formed by denoting the alleles from the members in a pedigree with a same digital.
De-jian LÜ
doaj   +1 more source

The Legal Position of Children of Incest (A Study of Madhhab Scholars and Compilation of Islamic Law)

open access: yesSAMARAH: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga dan Hukum Islam, 2022
This study aims to discuss the legal position of children of incest, the opinions of madhhab scholars, and the provisions on inheritance rights of children of incest according to Islamic law. This normative legal study used the Islamic law methodological
Mursyid Djawas   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Need to Act: Incest as a Crime Given Low Priority—A View with India as an Example

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Background: Incest is a form of sexual activity that occurs within family or kinship systems. It is prohibited by religion and law in most countries as well as by social mores or taboos.
Peter Choate, Radha Sharan
doaj   +1 more source

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