Between 1980 and 2022, around 15 percent of families in the United States reported to have had an event of incest in the family, while around 46 percent of rape victims who were children were raped by someone in their own family. Only 20 percent of incest victims reported the crime to law enforcement.

Alaska saw the highest rape rate in the United States in 2023, with 118.4 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants. The lowest rate was found in New Jersey, with 17.9 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants. Sexual assault in Alaska Fighting sexual assault in Alaska is particularly difficult due to small, isolated, close-knit communities who can be wary of airing their dirty laundry to outsiders, as well as a low number of law enforcement employees in the state. In addition, Alaska’s low population is spread out over a large land area, meaning that in the event of an assault being reported to police, it can take law enforcement hours, or even days, to reach the most isolated communities. The victims of sexual assault There tends to be more reported female victims of sexual assault than male victims. However, since sexual assault is typically an underreported crime, especially among males, these figures could be, and probably are, much higher. In addition, many victims of sexual offenses tend to be young, although sexual assault can occur at any age.

In 2023, Texas had the highest number of forcible rape cases in the United States, with 15,097 reported rapes. Delaware had the lowest number of reported forcible rape cases at 194. Number vs. rate It is perhaps unsurprising that Texas and California reported the highest number of rapes, as these states have the highest population of states in the U.S. When looking at the rape rate, or the number of rapes per 100,000 of the population, a very different picture is painted: Alaska was the state with the highest rape rate in the country in 2023, with California ranking as 30th in the nation. The prevalence of rape Rape and sexual assault are notorious for being underreported crimes, which means that the prevalence of sex crimes is likely much higher than what is reported. Additionally, more than a third of women worry about being sexually assaulted, and most sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone the victim knew.

Across taxa, breeding among close relatives is usually avoided because it incurs fitness costs to offspring. Incest is often averted through the dispersal of either sex from the natal area to breed. In some philopatric species, association among relatives extends into adulthood, and an ability to discriminate kin may be required for individuals to reduce inbreeding risk. Here, we aim to determine the mechanism of kin recognition for incest avoidance in the Damaraland mole-rat Fukomys damarensis, a cooperative breeder characterized by extreme reproductive skew. Pairs of opposite-sex adults were formed in the laboratory and, within pairs, genetic relatedness and degree of familiarity were manipulated through cross-fostering experiments. We found that unfamiliar pairs were more likely to engage in sexual behaviours and bred more successfully than familiar pairs, regardless of their genetic similarity. Females paired with unfamiliar males were also more likely to exhibit reproductive activation, characterized by increased levels of oestradiol and progesterone. This study shows that in Damaraland mole-rats, inbreeding avoidance can be achieved through a discrimination mechanism that relies on association during rearing, and that ovulation is induced by mating. This study advances our understanding of incest avoidance in species with constrained dispersal. Methods The experiment was initially carried out on 32 pairs of opposite-sex individuals that were either: (i) familiar kin (n = 8); (ii) familiar non-kin (n = 8); (iii) unfamiliar kin (n = 8); or (iv) unfamiliar non-kin (n = 8), in a full factorial treatment design. Behavioural observations were carried out to quantify copulation, defined as one individual mounting another and attempting intromission with pelvic thrusts, and sex foreplay, defined as the rapid succession of bites, sparring, sniffs, passes, and drumming. A full ethogram of these and other observed mole-rat behaviours are presented in Supplementary Table S1A. Behavioural observations consisted of focal and scan sampling. Focals were carried out on the female. One two-hour focal session was carried out immediately after pairing (day 0, approximately 1000 SAST), and another one-hour focal session the following day (day 1, approximately 0800 SAST). Focal behaviours were sampled as ‘states’, recorded with a start and an end time, or ‘events’, recorded at observation without a duration (Supplementary Table S1B). Weekly 12-hour scan sessions were carried out for eight weeks, starting 2-8 days after pairing (approximately 0700 SAST). Four pairs were observed concurrently during each session (n = 8 individuals). Scan sessions comprised a combination of instantaneous and continuous sampling (Supplementary Table S1C). Behavioural states were recorded every four minutes, generating 180 instantaneous samples per individual. In between instantaneous sampling, events and states of short duration were recorded continuously. For both focals and scans, observations were recorded using Observer 11XT pocket version 3.2. Urine samples were collected to quantify oestradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4) and determine the effect of treatment on reproductive activation. Samples were collected 2-4 days before pairing to establish baseline E2 and P4 levels. Samples were subsequently collected on day 1, then every 3 days until day 90, and every 7 days between day 90 and day 270. E2 and P4 levels were quantified using high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass-spectrometry (Supplementary Material S2). All pairs were closely monitored for nine months following pairing. To investigate reproductive success, we tested the effect of treatment on the: (i) probability of successful gestation following reproductive activation; (ii) total number of pups produced; and (iii) total number of litters produced.

As of July 2022, 76 percent of Americans surveyed supported legalizing abortion when the woman's health is endangered by her pregnancy. Furthermore, just under three-quarters of respondents surveyed believed abortion should be legal in cases of rape or incest, while only 24 percent supported a nationwide ban on abortion.

This statistic shows the rate of sexual assault victims of police-reported family violence in Canada in 2016, distinguished by province. Among all provinces of Canada, 'Nunavut' had the highest rate of sexual assaults by family members with 111 victims per 100,000 population in 2016.

In 2022, about 194,164 perpetrators of child abuse in the United States were white. In that same year, about 83,314 perpetrators of child abuse were Hispanic, and 25,092 were of unknown ethnic origin.

As of August 2023, 84 percent of Democrat voters were supported the legalization of abortions in cases of rape or incest, this was higher in comparison to 77 percent of Republican, and 68 percent of Independent voters who were of the same opinion. This statistic illustrates the share of support toward the legalization of abortion under selected circumstances in the United States in 2023, by political party.

Child pornography is pornography that depicts one or more children. It is prohibited and considered a criminal offence in France and in most European countries. Producing and distributing child pornography content is therefore illegal and punishable by imprisonment. This graph shows the ranking of countries hosting child pornography content in the world in 2019. France was at the third position of the podium since it hosted that year seven percent of all child pornography content.

As of 2023, over 60 percent of the surveyed organizations claim to already incest in analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), alongside robotics and automation. As for the enterprises' prospects, the technology with the highest share of companies planning to invest in it in the upcoming year was the emerging generative AI (GenAI), having only been included in the study this year.