Even though I have read and appreciated some previous articles and books
by both the authors, the latest one on the subject of incest is in my
opinion nothing short of astonishing. The range of the documentation,
but fi rst of all the accurate and thorough way of approaching every
aspect of that troubling phenomenon: incest, make the book not just a
mere criminological study, as the title would let one to
believe.Surpassing the barriers of individual, cultural, moral and
traditional taboos surrounding incest, the authors successfully go to
the very roots of the facts, dissecting them from every possible
scientifi c angle, analysing and explaining the occurrence of incest,
the favourable conditions, the traditions leading to it, the
victim-to-be features, the social, psychological and criminological
implications.Prof. Sorin Alamoreanu, Ph.D.