Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Gender, Power, and Organizational Culture Book

Introduction

Part I. Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church, Clerical Men: A Critical Review
1. Child Sexual Abuse by Roman Catholic Clergy: The Scale and History of the Problem
2. Organized Irresponsibility (I): The Organizational and Institutional Culture of the Catholic Church
3. The View from the Ground: Clerical Men

Part II. Theorising Sexual Abuse
4. The Individual as the Unit of Analysis
5. A Social Approach for Understanding a Social Problem
6. Power and Gender

Part III. The Irish Case: Its Context and Wider Implications
7. Sexuality and Masculinity
8. Organized Irresponsibility (II): Clerical Elites, Rules, Obedience, and Loneliness
9. The Handling of Abuse Complaints
10. Understanding and Explaining Child Sexual Abuse within the Catholic Church

Conclusion: Prospects, Visions, Agendas

Appendix Glossary References Index