scholarly journals Victims of sexual abuse by catholic clerics and their needs for compensation

Temida ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Hellmann
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Legal Punishment ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse

Crime victims hold several expectations regarding the compensation of the harm done to them. In this regard, it is important to distinguish between material (e.g. financial) and immaterial (e.g. emotional support) needs and forms of compensation. To explore the matching between desired and actually awarded compensation, data of a survey with N=104 victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clerics were analysed. Data analyses revealed that the respondents most often required an apology and reparation by the Catholic Church followed by wishes for financial redress. Those were in turn the needs most frequently met. The majority of the victims also desired an apology and reparation by the offender, legal punishment for the offender, and therapeutic help for themselves. However, these forms of compensation were only scarcely provided. Taking into account further victimological research, findings are discussed against the background of restorative justice.

scholarly journals Catholic Church Responses to Clergy-Child Sexual Abuse and Mandatory Reporting Exemptions in Victoria, Australia: A Discursive Critique

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Andre Guerzoni ◽  
Hannah Graham
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Church Responses

This article presents empirical findings from a critical discourse analysis of institutional responses by the Catholic Church to clergy-child sexual abuse in Victoria, Australia. A sample of 28 documents, comprising 1,394 pages, is analysed in the context of the 2012-2013 Victorian Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations. Sykes and Matza’s (1957) and Cohen’s (1993) techniques of, respectively, neutralisation and denial are used to reveal the Catholic Church’s Janus-faced responses to clergy-child sexual abuse and mandatory reporting requirements. Paradoxical tensions are observed between Catholic Canonical law and clerical practices, and the extent of compliance with secular law and referral of allegations to authorities. Concerns centre on Church secrecy, clerical defences of the confessional in justification of inaction, and the Melbourne Response compensation scheme. Our research findings underscore the need for greater Church transparency and accountability; we advocate for mandatory reporting law reform and institutional reform, including adjustments to the confessional ritual.

scholarly journals Działania amerykańskich biskupów katolickich na rzecz ofiar wykorzystywania seksualnego przez duchownych. Wytyczne Komisji do spraw Ochrony Dzieci i Młodzieży

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1(27)) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
ALEKSANDRA KŁOS-SKRZYPCZAK
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church

The American Catholic Church for more than two decades faced with a crisis through in connection with the sexual abuse of minors. The article presents the actions of American bishops for victims of sexual abuse by clergy in both preventive and preventive care. The fi rst part presents the functioning of the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, then discusses the most important, recently published documents relating to the sexual abuse of minors.

scholarly journals Actions of the American Catholic Bishops for the benefi t of victims of sexual abuse by clergy Guidelines of the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1(27)) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Kłos - Skrzypczak
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young People ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Bishops

The American Catholic Church for more than two decades faced with a crisis through in connection with the sexual abuse of minors. The article presents the actions of American bishops for victims of sexual abuse by clergy in both preventive and preventive care. The first part presents the functioning of the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, then discusses the most important, recently published documents relating to the sexual abuse of minors.

Political risks of recovering and discovering meanings in the collective memory of a perverse religious organisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Eduardo Acuña Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
Conversion Event ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
The Catholic Church

This article refers to the political risks that a group of five parishioners, members of an aristocratic Catholic parish located in Santiago, Chile, had to face when they recovered and discovered unconscious meanings about the hard and persistent psychological and sexual abuse they suffered in that religious organisation. Recovering and discovering meanings, from the collective memory of that parish, was a sort of conversion event in the five parishioners that determined their decision to bring to the surface of Chilean society the knowledge that the parish, led by the priest Fernando Karadima, functioned as a perverse organisation. That determination implied that the five individuals had to struggle against powerful forces in society, including the dominant Catholic Church in Chile and the political influences from the conservative Catholic elite that attempted to ignore the existence of the abuses that were denounced. The result of this article explains how the five parishioners, through their concerted political actions and courage, forced the Catholic Church to recognise, in an ambivalent way, the abuses committed by Karadima. The theoretical basis of this presentation is based on a socioanalytical approach that mainly considers the understanding of perversion in organisations and their consequences in the control of anxieties.

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