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Child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church : gender, power, and organizational culture / Marie Keenan.
LIBRA BX1912.9 .K44 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keenan, Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church.
- Child sexual abuse by clergy.
- Child sexual abuse by clergy--Case studies.
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Sexual behavior.
- Clergy.
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Sexual behavior--Case studies.
- Catholic Church--Discipline.
- Discipline.
- Child sexual abuse--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 355 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Clergy: the scale and history of the problem
- Organized irresponsibility (I): the organizational and institutional culture of the Catholic Church
- The view from the ground: clerical men
- The individual as the unit of analysis
- A social approach for understanding a social problem
- Power and gender
- Sexuality and masculinity
- Organized 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-335) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199895670
- 0199895678
- OCLC:
- 739914107
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