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The causal cognition of wrong doing: incest, intentionality, and morality [PDF]
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
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From Criminal Law to Customary Law: Incest as a Sexual Crime
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
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“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]
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
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Characteristics and risk factors for sibling incest. [PDF]
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
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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
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Evidence for frequent incest in a cooperatively breeding mammal
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
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Evaluation of the incest cases in Hatay
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
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Calculation of Likelihood Ratios for Incest Cases Using IBD Patterns [PDF]
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
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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
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The Need to Act: Incest as a Crime Given Low Priority—A View with India as an Example
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
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