1st Edition

Child Protection in the Church An Anglican Case Study

By Michael A. Guerzoni Copyright 2021
228 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Child Protection in the Church investigates whether, amidst publicised promises of change from church institutions and the introduction of “safe church” policies and procedures, reform is actually occurring within Christian churches towards safeguarding, using a case study of the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania, Australia. Through the use of interviews and document analysis, the book provides... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Clergy-Child Sexual Abuse and the Church Abuse Crisis: Context and Concerns

3. Theorising Behaviour and Crime Prevention Within Religious Organisations

4. The Anglican Diocese of Tasmania: Structure, Context and the Clergy

5. Anglican Diocese of Tasmania: Child Abuse Training, Policies and Procedures

6. Cognition: Clerical Attitudes Toward Child Sexual Abuse and Child Safety

7. Conduct: Clerical Situational Crime Prevention Techniques and Everyday Ministerial
8. Practices in Response to Clergy-Child Sexual Abuse in the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania

9. Culture: Understanding Cognition and Conduct: Analysing Clerical Habitus and Clerical Culture

10. Conclusion

11. Appendices

12. References

Biography

Michael A. Guerzoni (PhD, University of Tasmania) is an Indigenous Fellow Academic Development (Criminology) in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His research examines clerical culture and abuse prevention within Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism, and the wellbeing of Indigenous children. He lectures in child protection and juvenile justice.