Do Biological And Sociological Incest Offenders Differ?

Originally Published on July 3rd, 2023 at 03:42 pm
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Overview

Sexual abuse is often perpetrated by incest offenders, there is little research that specifically focuses on this type of offending.

Summary

Research on child sexual abuse tends to focus on contact offending in a general sense or on abuse perpetrated by non-family members.

In a meta-analysis published in 2017 the authors, Pullman et. al, sought to study whether there were differences between biological and sociological incest offending.

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