Justice for Children
New Directions for Responding to the Catholic Clergy Abuse Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21744432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Beste (0000-0002-4333-6992, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345-362 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1540-7942 • E-ISSN: 2326-2176 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/jsce202111237 |
| OpenAlex | W3119987152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A major oversight in Catholicism’s clergy abuse crisis is its failure to examine how assumptions about children and norms concerning adult-children interactions contributed to child sexual abuse and bishops’ systematic cover-up. An adequate response must include new practices based on a revised child-centered account of what constitutes justice for children. In this paper, I develop an account of justice drawing on four sources: 1) Margaret Farley’s account of justice; 2) research findings from my ethnographic study observing and interviewing Catholic second graders about receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation; 3) the interdisciplinary field of childhood studies; and 4) the Catholic tradition
Bishops · Child sexual abuse · Criminology · Economic Justice · Ethnography · Interview · Poison control · Political science · Sexual abuse · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Anthropology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |