Sexual abuse of children by the Catholic priests in the US
From a ‘charismatic bureaucracy’ to a governance regime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13041797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Flam (0000-0003-1429-0355, Leipzig University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 385-410 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Power (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-379X • E-ISSN: 2158-3803 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2158379x.2015.1101203 |
| OpenAlex | W2137852670 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The article focuses on the sexual harassment of children by the Catholic clergy in the US up until the early 2000s. The goal is to show how the emotional regime determining the relations between the clergy and the faithful changed as a result of successive revelations about clerical sexual abuse and the intransigence of the church on this issue. Both deprived it of much of its protective charisma and thus untouchability. Faced with mounting contestations and financial pressures, the upper echelons of the church hierarchy were forced to switch from unilateral bureaucratic to multilateral decision-making forms. The text highlights the contribution of the women’s and victims’ movements, popular culture (Oprah Winfrey!), insurance rules, and courageous journalists and lawyers to this process
Bureaucracy · Charisma · Corporate governance · Criminology · Economics · Harassment · Hierarchy · Management · Political science · Politics · Sexual abuse · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Medicine · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |