@article{ref1,
title="Trajectories of abuse and disclosure child sexual abuse by Catholic priests",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2008",
author="Smith, Margaret Leland and Rengifo, Andres F. and Vollman, Brenda K.",
volume="35",
number="5",
pages="570-582",
abstract="The distribution of the incidents of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the United States (event structure) and the reports of these abuse events (reporting structure ) present two distinct trajectories, confounding existing individual-level research results. Data from an institutional census of records of abuse between 1950 and 2002 show a steady increase in cases through the late 1970s and early 1980s, followed by a surge in reporting in the mid-1990s and again in 2002. These patterns are stable throughout all regions of the Catholic Church in the United States. Rather than analyze the abuse or reporting from a conventionally individual, psychological framework, this research reframes the analyses for the event structure and the reporting of abuse by priests.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854808314340",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808314340"
}