TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Trajectories of abuse and disclosure child sexual abuse by Catholic priests
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Smith, Margaret Leland
A1  - Rengifo, Andres F.
A1  - Vollman, Brenda K.
SP  - 570
EP  - 582
VL  - 35
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854808314340
ID  - ref1
ER  -