Sociological Perspectives on Clerical Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Hierarchy An Exploratory Structural Analysis of Social Disorganisation /

• Main Author: O. Ballano, Vivencio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies,
• Subjects: Catholic Church.; Religion and sociology.; Sociology.; Theology.; Catholicism.; Sociology of Religion.; Sociological Theory.; Social Aspects of Religion.; Christian Theology.

This book, as an exploratory sociological analysis, broadly examines the major structural factors which contribute to the social disorganization of the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community, facilitating the persistence of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Using some tenets of the s...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1.Introduction
• 2 The Catholic Hierarchy and Social Interaction of the Clergy
• 3. Supervision of Clerical Behavior in the Hierarchy
• 4.Celibacy and Social Disorganization in the Catholic Hierarchy
• 5.Lay Empowerment, Social Disorganization, and Clerical Sexual Abuse.