RT Article
T1 Jesus wept: the Roman Catholic Church, child sexual abuse and transitional justice
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 10
IS 2
SP 332
OP 349
A1 Gallen, James
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843773554
AB 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.
K1 Clerical child sexual abuse
K1 Roman Catholic Church
K1 Non-armed conflict
K1 Restorative versus transitional justice
K1 Holy See
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijw003