Understanding Child Sexual Abuse Within Religious Institutions
Author: Karen Terry.
Source: Volume 16, Number 03, April/May 2014 , pp.35-37(3)
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Abstract:
This article continues the exploration, begun in a previous issue of SLR, of the obstacles to preventing child sexual abuse when the abuser has contact with the child in legitimate contexts. Dr. Terry examines the difficulty of determining how pervasive child sexual abuse is within various religious institutions, and she outlines the challenges of addressing the abuse.Keywords: sexual misconduct reporting; adjudication; sanctions
Affiliations:
1: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.