We Shared Something Special: The Moral Discourse of Incest Perpetrators

We Shared Something Special: The Moral Discourse of Incest Perpetrators

The concepts of justice and care provided the framework for the analysis of narrative accounts of incest perpetrators. Informants were 10 men and one woman interviewed an average of six times each. The analysis was guided by the procedures of modified analytic induction. Most striking about informants' accounts was that almost all of them defined incest as love and care and their behavior as considerate and fair. In several instances, they described their experience of incest as mutual romantic love. Yet, their professed care, love, and sense of fairness were contradicted in many ways, such as their refusal to stop when children wanted to stop. Within their narratives were several other gender-based discourses found in the wider culture.

Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Anthropology