Interdisciplinary Feminist Perspectives on Crimes of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse

ISBN-13: 9780367585204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 104 str.

Kate Gleeson; Timothy Willem Jones

Opis

This book provides important historical context for the current social and political interest in clerical sex crimes by examining political and legal avenues for redress for survivors of these crimes and critically examining the ways in which church cultures position clergy and clergy offenders in relation to victims. The chapters originall

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.