1st Edition

Interdisciplinary Feminist Perspectives on Crimes of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse

Edited By Kate Gleeson, Timothy Willem Jones Copyright 2019
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years the sexual abuse of children in religious institutions has gripped the Western world, as churches, governments and civil society attempt to come to terms with the magnitude of widespread historical abuses. Questions continue to be asked about why it is that perpetrators were able to offend repeatedly and with impunity; what is it about institutions that facilitate or foster abuse;... Read more

Introduction - Feminist Contributions to Justice for Survivors of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Kate Gleeson & Timothy Willem Jones 1. ‘Perhaps Some Writing: And a Record of my Age’ Lewis McCabe 2. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Learning from the Past Fiona Davis 3. Graceful Remedies: Understanding Grace in the Catholic Church's Treatment of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Kate Gleeson & Aleardo Zanghellini 4. Sin, Silence and States of Denial: Canon Law and the ‘Discovery’ of Child Sexual Abuse Timothy Willem Jones 5. Reparation for Betrayal of Trust in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: The Christian Duty of Care, Vicarious Liability and the Church of England Kim Stevenson, Judith Rowbotham & Jason Lowther 6. An Unexpected Path: Bankruptcy, Justice and Intersecting Identities in the Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandals Meredith Edelman 7. Giving Voice to Narratives of Institutional Sex Abuse Shurlee Swain

Biography

Kate Gleeson is Senior Lecturer in Law at Macquarie Law School, Australia. She has published extensively on the regulation of bodies, sexuality and reproductive practices. She has particular expertise in justice for crimes of institutional and historical child sexual abuse in Australia and internationally.





Timothy Willem Jones is Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a cultural historian of sex, gender and religion in modern Britain, Australia and the USA.