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. In recent years the sexual abuse of children in religious institutions has gripped the Western world, as churches, governments and civil society attempt to come to terms with the magnitude of widespread historical abuses. Questions continue to be asked about why it is that perpetrators were able to offend repeatedly and with impunity; what is it about institutions that facilitate or foster abuse; and why have survivors of abuse often been treated inadequately by diverse national and international justice and political systems throughout the last century?
This volume makes a significant contribution to international understandings of the vexed and sensitive ‘wicked problem’ of child sexual abuse in religious institutions. The chapters in this volume are written from a range of feminist disciplinary responses, including law, criminology, anthropology and history. Together, they provide important historical context for the current social and political interest in clerical sex crimes.
They examine political and legal avenues for redress for survivors of these crimes and critically examine the ways in which church cultures position clergy and clergy offenders in relation to victims. The chapters originally published in a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal. ISBNs for Interdisciplinary Feminist Perspectives on Crimes of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse are 9780429834851, 0429834853 and the print ISBNs are 9781138324510, 1138324515.
Additional ISBNs include 9780429450822, 9780367585204, 9780429834868, 9780429834844.
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- Author: Kate Gleeson; ?Timothy Willem Jones
- Publisher: Routledge
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