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College Students' Attribution of Blame in Father–Daughter Incest
Author(s) -
Adams Rebecca A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x07303815
Subject(s) - blame , commit , attribution , daughter , psychology , curriculum , social psychology , criminology , developmental psychology , pedagogy , political science , database , computer science , law
Incest is one of the most repugnant things that can occur. If the educational programs have been effective, it would appear that individuals would not blame the victim. The Jackson Incest Blame Scale was administered to students in marriage and family classes at a midwestern university. Female students strongly supported the concept that women being treated as sex objects and sex and violence in the media influence offenders to commit incest. Discussion raises questions about the potential incongruent treatment of women in university family and consumer sciences departmental curricula.