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The clergy sex abuse crisis and the legal responses / James T. O'Reilly, Margaret S. P. Chalmers.
LIBRA KF1328.5.C45 O74 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Reilly, James T., 1947- author.
- Chalmers, Margaret S. P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child sexual abuse by clergy--United States.
- Child sexual abuse by clergy.
- United States.
- Child sexual abuse by clergy (Canon law).
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Sexual behavior.
- Catholic Church.
- Clergy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 453 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction to a complex problem
- Understanding the patterns of clergy abuse litigation
- Civil litigation against Catholic dioceses, parishes and priests
- Participants in the clergy abuse case
- Delays & limitations in clergy abuse claims
- Effects of criminal charges & plea agreements
- Church insurance & abuse claims
- Constitutional issues
- Bankruptcy issues
- Mandated abuse reporting issues
- Evidence privileges & clergy abuse issues
- Repressed memory inducement cases
- Fraud and nondisclosure in the assignment of clergy
- Defenses & claims of immunity
- Damages issues
- Fiscal impacts of abuse cases on the U.S. Catholic Church
- Impact of abuse cases on external relations of the Catholic Church
- Responses vary inside & outside the United States
- The Church's internal big picture: governance and law
- How episcopal culture contributed to administrative failure
- The development of the problem: 1950 to 2002
- The perfect storm in canon law: what went wrong
- 2002 and beyond
- The particular issues of religious communities
- The investigation and pretrial canonical process
- The accuser and the canonical process
- Canonical penal trials and outcomes
- Limitations and weaknesses in the canonical penal system
- Clergy abuse issues in non-Roman Catholic denominations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-432) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199937936
- 0199937931
- OCLC:
- 879370901
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