Clerical Sexual Abuse by Jo-Renee Formicola

Note: The closing quotes must be before the citation, followed by a period. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Social Sources of Delinquency: An Appraisal of Analytic Models. Understanding social control: Deviance, crime and social order.

American Journal of Sociology, 88, 24–42. Community Change and Patterns of Delinquency. Informal surveillance and street crime: a complex relationship. Social interaction and community crime: examining the importance of neighbor networks. Before dallas: The bishops’ response to the sexual abuse of children. The Code of Canon Law: Twenty-Five Years Later, Vol. It argues that the weak social bonding of various networks within the hierarchy, the concentration of ecclesiastical powers in the college of bishops as a clerical network, the absence of a professional judicial system in the Church, the lack of technological surveillance against clerical abuse, and the inadequate lay intermediary networks in the hierarchy primarily contribute to the social disorganization of the Catholic clergy as a community. It investigates the supervision and coordination of the various components of the hierarchical community from the pope and the Roman Curia down to the lowest clerical network of the parish and draws some implications to the social control of clerical behavior against sexual abuse.

This chapter attempts to analyze broadly this social cohesion of the Catholic hierarchy as a clerical community. The Catholic Church prides itself on having a united community of ordained pastors under one priesthood of Christ.

Clerical Sexual Abuse by Jo-Renee Formicola