Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Incest Crime

• Author: Mariana Mitra-Nita
• Position: Ovidius University of Constanta, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences
• Pages: 73-77

Law, Society & Organisations

Volume II, Issue 3 (2 / 2017)

73

Mariana MITRA-NITA

Ovidius University of Constanta

Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences

INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS

OF THE INCEST CRIME

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eywords

Incests,

Immoral aspect,

Offense,

State policy,

Interdisciplinary,

Causality

Abstract

Incests are, unfortunately, an undeniable reality. This is, in addition to its immoral aspect, an offense with

particularly serious consequences for the genotype of the human species and for the normal and natural

evolution of man. Nowadays, incest is an offense, but in ancient times not only it did not constitute an

illicit fact, but it was raised to the rank of state policy, being practiced in marriages between members of

the same family, especially in the Egyptian royal courts. Later, however, human society has identified the

unfavorable repercussions of these practices, forbidding them and blaming them under various forms and

reactions, trying to prevent their realization by becoming aware of their harmfulness. The analysis of incest

must be done from its farthest sources, reaching to this day. Moreover, incest carries an interdisciplinary

approach, by reference to its nature.