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Child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church : gender, power, and organizational culture / Marie Keenan.

By: Keenan, Marie.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011Description: xxx, 355 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780199895670.Subject(s): Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Sexual behavior | Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Sexual behavior -- Case studies | Catholic Church -- Discipline | Child sexual abuse by clergy | Child sexual abuse by clergy -- Case studies | Child sexual abuse -- Religious aspects -- Catholic ChurchDDC classification: 261.83272
Contents:
Part I: Sexual abuse: The catholic church, clerical men: a critical review -- Child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Clergy: the scale and history of the problem -- Organised irresponsibility (I): the organisational and institutional culture of the Catholic Church -- The view from the ground: clerical men -- Part II: Theorizing sexual abuse -- The individual as the unit of analysis -- A social approach for understanding a social problem -- Power and gender -- Part III: The Irish case: its context and wider implications -- Sexuality and masculinity -- Organised irresponsibility (II): clerical elites, rules, obedience and loneliness -- The handling of abuse complaints -- Understanding and explaining child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church: Gender, power, organizational culture -- Conclusion: prospects, visions, agendas.

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A meticulously researched inside look at child sexual abuse by clergy, this exhaustive, hard-hitting analysis weaves together interviews with abusive priests and church historical and administrative details to propose a new way of thinking about clerical sexual offenders. Linking the personal and the institutional, researcher and therapist Marie Keenan locates the problem of child sexual abuse not exclusively in individual pathology, but also within larger systemic factors, such as the very institution of priesthood itself, the Catholic take on sexuality, clerical culture, power relations, governance structures of the Catholic Church, the process of formation for priesthood and religious life, and the complex manner in which these factors coalesce to create serious institutional risks for boundary violations, including child sexual abuse. Keenan draws on the priests' own words not to excuse their horrific crimes, but to offer the first in-depth account of a tragic, multi-faceted phenomenon. What emerges is a troubling portrait of a Church in crisis and a series of recommendations that call for nothing less than a new ecclesiology and a new, more critical theology. Only through radical institutional reform, Keenan argues, can a more representative and accountable Church emerge. Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church is a unique reference for scholars of the Church and therapists who work with both victims and offenders, as well as a forward-thinking blueprint for reform.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-335) and index.

Part I: Sexual abuse: The catholic church, clerical men: a critical review -- Child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Clergy: the scale and history of the problem -- Organised irresponsibility (I): the organisational and institutional culture of the Catholic Church -- The view from the ground: clerical men -- Part II: Theorizing sexual abuse -- The individual as the unit of analysis -- A social approach for understanding a social problem -- Power and gender -- Part III: The Irish case: its context and wider implications -- Sexuality and masculinity -- Organised irresponsibility (II): clerical elites, rules, obedience and loneliness -- The handling of abuse complaints -- Understanding and explaining child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church: Gender, power, organizational culture -- Conclusion: prospects, visions, agendas.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgments (p. ix)
  • Introduction (p. xi)
  • Part I Sexual abuse, the catholic church, clerical men: a critical review
  • 1 Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Clergy: The Scale and History of the Problem (p. 1)
  • 2 Organized Irresponsibility (I): The Organizational and Institutional Cultureofthe Catholic Church (p. 14)
  • 3 The View from the Ground: ClericalMen (p. 54)
  • Part II Theorizing sexual abuse
  • 4 The Individual as the Unit of Analysis (p. 73)
  • 5 A Social Approach for Understanding a Social Problem (p. 95)
  • 6 Power and Gender (p. 115)
  • Part III The Irish case: its context and wider implications
  • 7 Sexuality and Masculinity (p. 119)
  • 9 Organized Irresponsibility (II): Clerical Elites, Rules, Obedience, and Loneliness (p. 154)
  • 9 The Handling of Abuse Complaints (p. 180)
  • 10 Understanding and Explaining Child Sexual Abuse within the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, Organizational Culture (p. 230)
  • Conclusion: Prospects, visions, agendas (p. 259)
  • Appendix: The participants in the research (p. 277)
  • Notes (p. 283)
  • Glossary (p. 187)
  • References (p. 293)
  • Index (p. 337)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Marie Keenan, PhD, is a Researcher and Lecturer at the School of Applied Social Science, University College Dublin, and a member of the Advisory Board of the UCD Institute of Criminology. She is Chairperson of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland and a registered psychotherapist who has worked for over twenty years with survivors and perpetrators of sexual crime and their families, in community and forensic settings.

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