Identity, forgiveness and power in the management of child sexual abuse by personnel in Christian Institutions


Autoria(s): Death, Jodi
Data(s)

2013

Resumo

The ongoing crises of child sexual abuse by Christian institutions leaders across the Anglophone world continue to attract public attention and public inquiries. The pervasiveness of this issue lends credence to the argument that the prevailing ethos functioning within some Christian Institutions is one which exercises influence to repeatedly mismanage allegations of child sexual abuse by Church leaders. This work draws on semistructured interviews conducted with 15 Personnel in Christian Institutions (PICIs) in Australia who were identified as being pro-active in their approach to addressing child sexual abuse by PICIs. From these data, themes of power and forgiveness are explored through a Foucaultian conceptualising of pastoral power and ‘truth’ construction. Forgiveness is viewed as a discourse which can have the power effect of either silencing or empowering victim/survivors. The study concludes that individual PICIs’ understandings of the role ofpower in their praxis influences outcomes from the deployment of forgiveness.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/59567/

Publicador

Centre for Crime and Justice

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/59567/1/59567P.pdf

https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/92

Death, Jodi (2013) Identity, forgiveness and power in the management of child sexual abuse by personnel in Christian Institutions. International Journal for Crime and Justice, 2(1), pp. 82-97.

Direitos

Copyright 2013 Jodi Death

Fonte

Crime & Justice Research Centre; Faculty of Law; School of Justice

Palavras-Chave #160200 CRIMINOLOGY #Child Sexual Abuse #Clergy Abuse #Identity #Forgiveness #Pastoral Power
Tipo

Journal Article