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Jesus wept: the Roman Catholic Church, child sexual abuse and transitional justice

Gallen, James ORCID: 0000-0002-1145-9680 (2016) Jesus wept: the Roman Catholic Church, child sexual abuse and transitional justice. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 10 (2). pp. 332-349. ISSN 1752-7716

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Abstract

This article considers the range of issues involved in pursuing justice for the sexual and institutional abuse of children by the Roman Catholic Church. It examines whether the framework of transitional justice discourse and practice should be used to analyze how individuals, communities, states and the global Roman Catholic Church can and should respond to the church’s legacy of widespread child sexual abuse committed by priests and religious individuals. It interrogates whether transitional justice should be employed in a novel non-armed conflict setting and argues that measures taken to date fail to reflect key insights of transitional justice that could be usefully applied to the church’s response to this pattern of abuse.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Social Sciences > Law
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijw003
Copyright Information:© 2016 The Author
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:26613
Deposited On:13 Jan 2022 15:43 by James Gallen . Last Modified 13 Jan 2022 15:43

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