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Incest [with Commentaries]

1978

Noble, M., on, J. K. M., Mason, J. K., Hughes, G. J., & Bancroft, J.

Journal of Medical Ethics, 4(2), 64–70.

Incest: A chilling report.

1992

Vanderbilt, H.

Angelfire

Posttraumatic Growth and Sexual Violence: A Literature Review.

2016

Ulloa, E., Guzman, M. L., Salazar, M., & Cala, C.

Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma, 25(3), 286–304.

The disgust that fascinates: Sibling incest as a bad romance.

2017

Kokkola, L. & Valovirta, E.

Sexuality & Culture 21(1), 121-141.

Why rape survivors participate in the criminal justice system.

2010

Patterson, D, & Campbell, R.

Journal of Community Psychology, (38)2: 191–205.

“Criminal Victimization, 2020 | Bureau of Justice Statistics.”

2021

Morgan, R. E., PhD, & Thompson, A.

Bureau of Justice Statistics.

“LABELED FOR LIFE.”

2020

Pickett, M., Satifka, E., Shah, R. S., Juvenile Law Center, & Vic Wiener.

Juvenile Law Center.

"And I Let It All Out": Survivors' SSA Disclosures

2020

Tener, Katz, Kaufmann

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

"I Didn't Know Where to Go": an examination of Stop It Now!'s sexual abuse prevention helpline

2019

Grant, Shields, Tabachnick

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

"I Love Him and Hate Him in the Same Breath": relationships of adult survivors of SSA with their perpetrating siblings

2019

Tener

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

"I don't fit into any category": Adult perspectives on the dynamics of past sexual acts between siblings in Jewish Orthodox society

2022

Marmor, Tener

"I got played by my best friend in my own home": Survivor Testimonies of SSA

2023

Lewin et al

Journal of Sexual Aggression

"I wanted them all to notice": Protecting children and responding to CSA within the family environment

2024

Hudson (Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel)

CSA Centre/Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel

"It's Just the Abuse that Needs to Stop": professional framing of sibling relationships in a grounded theory study of social worker decision making following sibling sexual behavior

2019

Yates

Journal of CSA

"Just listen to me": Experiences of therapy after childhood sibling sexual abuse

2024

Van Berkel, Bicanic, Van der Voort

Child Abuse & Neglect

"Normal" Childhood Sexual Play & Games: Differentiating Play from Abuse

1993

Lamb, Coakley

Child Abuse & Neglect

"People don't talk about it": CSA in ethnic minority communities

2020

Rodger, Hurcombe, Redmond, George

Independent Inquiry on CSA

"Pornography, problem sexual behavior and sibling on sibling sexual violence." Victoria, AU: Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016).

2016

Etheredge, L., and J. Lemon

"Victim, Perpetrator, or Just My Brother?" SSA in Large Families: a CAC Study

2017

Tener, Tarshish, Turgeman

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

A Balancing Act: A Family Perspective to SSA

2013

Keane, Guest, Padbury

Child Abuse Review

A Call to Child Welfare: protecting children from sibling abuse

2014

Meyers

Qualitative Social Work

A Meta-Analysis Comparing Male Adolescents who have Sexually Offended against Intrafamilia vs. Extrafamilial Victims

2020

Martijn, Leroux, Babchishin

Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

A Parent’s Experience Working with Professionals Following Disclosure of Sibling Sexual Abuse/Trauma

2023

Ward

British Journal of Social Work

A conceptual analysis of system responses to the issue of problematic sexual behaviors in children and recommendations for future work in CAC multidisciplinary teams

2023

Harris, Lanni, Svendsen

Frontiers in Psychiatry

A meta-analysis of trends in general, sexual, and violent recidivism among youth with histories of sex offending

2023

Lussier, McCuish, Frechette

A prospective longitudinal study of sexual recidivism among adolescent sex offenders

2004

Nisbet, Wilson, Smallbone

Sex Abuse

A qualitative examination of factors impacting family engagement in treatment for youth with problematic sexual behavior

2020

Shields et al

Children and Youth Services Review

A qualitative investigation of treatment components for families of youth who have sexually offended

2015

Yoder & Ruch

Journal of Sexual Aggression

A qualitative study of sexual assault survivors' post-assault legal system experiences.

2019

Lorenz, K., Kirkner, A., & Ullman, S. E.

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 20(3): 263–287.

A spiritual framework in incest survivors’ treatment.

2004

Beveridge, K.

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse., 13(2), 105–120.

ACEs and Psychosocial Functioning Problems for Youth Who Sexually Harm Siblings

2023

Thomsen, Ogilvie, Rynne

Journal of Sexual Aggression

Acknowledge, address, adapt -
Closing the gap between sibling sexual abuse as the most
common form of child sexual abuse in our homes and the
most ignored form of child sexual abuse in the UK

2022

Strong

RCEW National Project on SSA

Addressing physical and psychological sibling violence: Perspectives from youth care professionals in Belgium

2025

VanKelecom, Tucker, et al

Adjudicated Adolescents Located on a State Sex Offender Registry Website as Adults: Common Denominators

2023

Rasmussen

Adolescent Dilemmas About Viewing Pornography and their Efforts to Resolve Them

2022

Vertongen, van Ommen, Chamberlain

Journal of Adolescent Research

Adolescent sibling incest offenders: differences in family and individual functioning when compared to adolescent nonsibling SO's

1995

Worling

Child Abuse and Neglect

Adolescents who sexually abuse their siblings: An overview of the literature and issues for research attention.

2001

Hatch, Hayman-White

Eighth Australasian Conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Neglect

Adolescents who sexually abuse their siblings: a study of family factors and victim selection

2005

Hatch

PhD dissertation, University of Melbourne

Adolescents with Sexually Abusive Behaviors and Their Families

2012

Pratt, Miller, Boyd

Victorian Government DHS

Adult Survivors of Childhood Sibling Incest: case studies of eight women

1995

Taylor, Tener, Silovsky

PhD dissertation, University of South Florida

Adult coping with childhood sexual abuse: A theoretical and empirical review.

2009

Walsh, Fortier, M. A., & DiLillo, D.

Aggression and Violent Behavior, 15(1), 1–13.

Adult male survivors of incest and childhood abuse: An investigation of the effects

1995

Vargas, Henrietta Ann

University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9611072

African American Attitudes Toward Incest and Child Sexual Abuse

2001

Journal of Religion & Abuse, V2, Issue 3

Against All Odds: The Unexplained Sexual Recidivism Drop in the United States and Canada

2023

Lussier, McCuish, Jeglic

Crime and Justice: A Review of Research

America has an incest problem.

2013

Fontaine, M.

The Atlantic.

Approaches to Assessment & Intervention with Children and Young People who Engage in HSB: A Scoping Review

2023

McPherson et al

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

Assessing Parental Understanding of Sexualized Behavior in Children and Adolescents

2017

Marriage, Blackley, Panagiotaros

Child Abuse and Neglect

Assessing Risk of Victim Crossover with Children and Young People Who Display HSB

2013

Allardyce, Yates

Child Abuse Review

Assessment and disclosure of CSA: forensive evaluation in alleged sibling incest against children

2014

Falcao, Jardim, Dinis-Oliveira

Journal of CSA

Awareness and understanding of sibling
sexual abuse amongst professionals in
frontline sectors in England and Wales

2022

Noble

BLACK RAPE, INCEST VICTIMS RELUCTANT TO REPORT CRIMES

2018

The Orlando Sentinel

Badgley Report on Sexual Offenses Against Children and Youth

1986

Schlesinger

US DOJ summary of Canadian report

Barriers and Facilitators to Disclosing Sexual Abuse in Childhood: a systematic review

2017

Lemaigre, Taylor, Gittoes

Child Abuse and Neglect

Best practice guidelines for health service professionals who receive initial disclosures of SSA

2012

Tapara

New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

Brother-Sister Incest--Father-Daughter Incest: a comparison of characteristics and consequences

1999

Rudd, Herzberger

Child Abuse and Neglect

Brother-Sister Incest: Data from Anonymous Computer-Assisted Self Interviews

2013

Stroebel, OKeefe, Beard...

Journal of CSA

Brother-sister incest: Characteristics, risk factors, trauma, and long-term effects among adult female survivors

1991

Gioro

PhD dissertation, University of Maine

Building concern free of force in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood incest.

2016

Gil, S.

British Journal of Psychotherapy, (32)2:175–186.

But She Didn't Say No': an exploration of sibling sexual abuse

2010

McVeigh

Australian Social Work

CAC Intervention with SSA Cases: cross-cultural comparison of professionals' perspectives and experiences

2020

Tener, Newman, Yates, Tarshish

Child Abuse and Neglect

CBT interventions for young people aged 10 to 18 with harmful sexual behaviour

2020

Sneddon et al

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

CHILD USA DELAYED DISCLOSURE FACTSHEET: 2024. In CHILD USA DELAYED DISCLOSURE FACTSHEET

2024

Ortiz, A.

Child USA

CSA Disclosure: What Practitioners Need to Know

2016

Townsend

Darkness to Light

CSA by Different Classes & Types of Perpetrator: Prevalence and trends from an Australian national survey

2024

Mathews et al (Finkelhor)

Child Abuse & Neglect

Caregiver Needs Following Disclosure of CSA

2015

vanToledo, Seymour

Caregiver Perceptions of Sexual Abuse and its effect on management after disclosure

2011

Walker-Descartes

Child Abuse and Neglect

Case of Sibling Incest Resulting in Pregnancy

2016

Karbeyaz, Toygar, Celikel

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Characteristics and Risk Factors for Sibling Incest

2024

Babchishin et al

PLOS One

Characteristics of Exonerated Cases of Child Sexual Abuse

2026

Denne, Sullivan, & Neal

Frontiers of Psychology

Characteristics of adolescent boys who have displayed HSB against children of younger or equal age

2020

Jensen

Characteristics of crimes against juveniles

2012

Finkelhor, D.

Durham, NH: Crimes against Children Research Center

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

2019

Bessa MMM, Drezett J, Adami F, Araújo SDT, Bezerra IMP, Abreu LC

Medicina (Kaunas), ;55(8):474

Child Abuse & Neglect in the UK Today

2011

Radford

NSPCC

Child Maltreatment in Foster Care: A Study of Retrospective Reporting

2001

Gail Tittle, M., John Poertner, D., & Philip Garnier, P.

Child Maltreatment in Foster Care: A Study of Retrospective Reporting

Child Maltreatment in Youth-Serving Organizations: A Scoping Review

2025

Finkelhor D, Gast L, Cavanaugh C, Sutton S, Jones LM, Turner H.

Trauma Violence Abuse

Child Maltreatment in the UK: a study of the prevalence of abuse and neglect

2000

Cawson, Wattam, Brooker

NSPCC

Child Sexual Abuse: A Social Work Perspective and Retrospective Case File Analysis

2025

Kewley, Blinkhorn, Thomas

Social Work in Action

Child on Child Sexual Abuse: psychological perspectives

2000

Shaw, Lewis, Loeb

Child Abuse and Neglect

Child safety practice manual

2022

Queensland Government

Child sexual abuse/exploitation and LGBTQI+ children: Context, links, vulnerabilities, gaps, challenges and priorities

2024

Capaldi, M., Schatz, J., & Kavenagh, M.

Child Protection and Practice, V1

Children Who Display HSB: assessing the risks of boys abusing at home, in the community, or across both settings

2011

Yates, Allardyce, McQueen

Journal of Sexual Aggression

Children and Young People with Harmful Sexual Behaviors

2010

Hackett

Children Behaving Badly Book, Wiley

Children and Young People with Harmful Sexual Behaviours

2014

Hackett

Children exposed to SSA: Sociodemographic and trauma symptom differences [compared to parent-child and other CSA]

2025

McDowell et al

Child Abuse & Neglect

Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: Assessment, Treatment, & Placement, 2nd edition

2023

ATSA (Pryor)

Clarifying labels, constructs, and definitions: Sibling aggressiona an dabuse are family violence

2025

Tucker, Whitworth, Finkelhor

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Community-Baed Participatory Research: Involving Young People with Lived Experience of Problematic Sexual Behavior

2025

Bodi, Amendola, Bright

Prevention Science

Comparison of CAC Responses to HSB Among Siblings: An International Perspective

2021

Taylor, Tener, Silovsky

Child Abuse and Neglect

Consumer perspectives of New Zealand community treatment programmes for sexually abusive youth

2011

Geary, Lambie, Seymour

Journal of Sexual Aggression

Coping with child sexual abuse among college students and post-traumatic stress disorder: The role of continuity of abuse and relationship with the perpetrator.

2010

Cantón-Cortés, D., & Cantón, J.

Child Abuse & Neglect, 34(7): 496–506.

Cultural Issues in Disclosures of CSA

2009

Fontes, Plummer

Journal of CSA

Developing a Framework for the Prevention of SSB

2024

Mccartan & King-Hill

Child Abuse & Neglect

Developing good practice in autism and harmful sexual behaviour (HSB)

2025

Carson

Development & Implementation of Preventive Intervention for Youth with Concerns About Their Sexual Thoughts and Behaviors: A Practioner Narrative

2023

Bright et al

Journal of Prevention

Disclosure of SSA by Hospitalized Adolescent Girls: three case reports

2022

Carretier, Lachal, Franzoni

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Discriminant factors for adolescent sexual offending: On the usefulness of considering both victim age and sibling incest

2016

Joyal, Carpentier, Martin

Child Abuse and Neglect

Disenfranchised Losses: Grief and Growth in Non-Death Loss Events

2021

Germany

Do parents blame our doubt their child more when sexually abused by adolescents vs adults?

2012

Walsh, Cross, Jones

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Does body image play a role in risky sexual behavior and attitudes?

2006

Gillen, M. M., Lefkowitz, E. S., & Shearer, C. L.

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 230-242.

Domestic Violence Between Childhood Incest and Re-victimization: A Study Among Anti-violence Centers in Italy

2018

Testoni Ines , Mariani Chiara , Zamperini Adriano

Sec. Psychology for Clinical Settings Volume 9

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Incest [with Commentaries]

Incest: A chilling report.

Posttraumatic Growth and Sexual Violence: A Literature Review.

The disgust that fascinates: Sibling incest as a bad romance.

Why rape survivors participate in the criminal justice system.

“Criminal Victimization, 2020 | Bureau of Justice Statistics.”

“LABELED FOR LIFE.”

"And I Let It All Out": Survivors' SSA Disclosures

"I Didn't Know Where to Go": an examination of Stop It Now!'s sexual abuse prevention helpline

"I Love Him and Hate Him in the Same Breath": relationships of adult survivors of SSA with their perpetrating siblings

"I don't fit into any category": Adult perspectives on the dynamics of past sexual acts between siblings in Jewish Orthodox society

"I got played by my best friend in my own home": Survivor Testimonies of SSA

"I wanted them all to notice": Protecting children and responding to CSA within the family environment

"It's Just the Abuse that Needs to Stop": professional framing of sibling relationships in a grounded theory study of social worker decision making following sibling sexual behavior

"Just listen to me": Experiences of therapy after childhood sibling sexual abuse

"Normal" Childhood Sexual Play & Games: Differentiating Play from Abuse

"People don't talk about it": CSA in ethnic minority communities

"Pornography, problem sexual behavior and sibling on sibling sexual violence." Victoria, AU: Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016).

"Victim, Perpetrator, or Just My Brother?" SSA in Large Families: a CAC Study

A Balancing Act: A Family Perspective to SSA

A Call to Child Welfare: protecting children from sibling abuse

A Meta-Analysis Comparing Male Adolescents who have Sexually Offended against Intrafamilia vs. Extrafamilial Victims

A Parent’s Experience Working with Professionals Following Disclosure of Sibling Sexual Abuse/Trauma

A conceptual analysis of system responses to the issue of problematic sexual behaviors in children and recommendations for future work in CAC multidisciplinary teams

A meta-analysis of trends in general, sexual, and violent recidivism among youth with histories of sex offending

A prospective longitudinal study of sexual recidivism among adolescent sex offenders

A qualitative examination of factors impacting family engagement in treatment for youth with problematic sexual behavior

A qualitative investigation of treatment components for families of youth who have sexually offended

A qualitative study of sexual assault survivors' post-assault legal system experiences.

A spiritual framework in incest survivors’ treatment.

ACEs and Psychosocial Functioning Problems for Youth Who Sexually Harm Siblings

Acknowledge, address, adapt -Closing the gap between sibling sexual abuse as the mostcommon form of child sexual abuse in our homes and themost ignored form of child sexual abuse in the UK

Addressing physical and psychological sibling violence: Perspectives from youth care professionals in Belgium

Adjudicated Adolescents Located on a State Sex Offender Registry Website as Adults: Common Denominators

Adolescent Dilemmas About Viewing Pornography and their Efforts to Resolve Them

Adolescent sibling incest offenders: differences in family and individual functioning when compared to adolescent nonsibling SO's

Adolescents who sexually abuse their siblings: An overview of the literature and issues for research attention.

Adolescents who sexually abuse their siblings: a study of family factors and victim selection

Adolescents with Sexually Abusive Behaviors and Their Families

Adult Survivors of Childhood Sibling Incest: case studies of eight women

Adult coping with childhood sexual abuse: A theoretical and empirical review.

Adult male survivors of incest and childhood abuse: An investigation of the effects

African American Attitudes Toward Incest and Child Sexual Abuse

Against All Odds: The Unexplained Sexual Recidivism Drop in the United States and Canada

America has an incest problem.

Approaches to Assessment & Intervention with Children and Young People who Engage in HSB: A Scoping Review

Assessing Parental Understanding of Sexualized Behavior in Children and Adolescents

Assessing Risk of Victim Crossover with Children and Young People Who Display HSB

Assessment and disclosure of CSA: forensive evaluation in alleged sibling incest against children

Awareness and understanding of sibling sexual abuse amongst professionals in frontline sectors in England and Wales

BLACK RAPE, INCEST VICTIMS RELUCTANT TO REPORT CRIMES

Badgley Report on Sexual Offenses Against Children and Youth

Barriers and Facilitators to Disclosing Sexual Abuse in Childhood: a systematic review

Best practice guidelines for health service professionals who receive initial disclosures of SSA

Brother-Sister Incest--Father-Daughter Incest: a comparison of characteristics and consequences

Brother-Sister Incest: Data from Anonymous Computer-Assisted Self Interviews

Brother-sister incest: Characteristics, risk factors, trauma, and long-term effects among adult female survivors

Building concern free of force in the treatment of adult survivors of childhood incest.

But She Didn't Say No': an exploration of sibling sexual abuse

CAC Intervention with SSA Cases: cross-cultural comparison of professionals' perspectives and experiences

CBT interventions for young people aged 10 to 18 with harmful sexual behaviour

CHILD USA DELAYED DISCLOSURE FACTSHEET: 2024. In CHILD USA DELAYED DISCLOSURE FACTSHEET

CSA Disclosure: What Practitioners Need to Know

CSA by Different Classes & Types of Perpetrator: Prevalence and trends from an Australian national survey

Caregiver Needs Following Disclosure of CSA

Caregiver Perceptions of Sexual Abuse and its effect on management after disclosure

Case of Sibling Incest Resulting in Pregnancy

Characteristics and Risk Factors for Sibling Incest

Characteristics of Exonerated Cases of Child Sexual Abuse

Characteristics of adolescent boys who have displayed HSB against children of younger or equal age

Characteristics of crimes against juveniles

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

Child Abuse & Neglect in the UK Today

Child Maltreatment in Foster Care: A Study of Retrospective Reporting

Child Maltreatment in Youth-Serving Organizations: A Scoping Review

Child Maltreatment in the UK: a study of the prevalence of abuse and neglect

Child Sexual Abuse: A Social Work Perspective and Retrospective Case File Analysis

Child on Child Sexual Abuse: psychological perspectives

Child safety practice manual

Child sexual abuse/exploitation and LGBTQI+ children: Context, links, vulnerabilities, gaps, challenges and priorities

Acknowledge, address, adapt -
Closing the gap between sibling sexual abuse as the most
common form of child sexual abuse in our homes and the
most ignored form of child sexual abuse in the UK

Awareness and understanding of sibling
sexual abuse amongst professionals in
frontline sectors in England and Wales