TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - The role of social factors in the sexual misconduct of Roman Catholic clergy: a second look at the John Jay data
JO  - Sexual addiction and compulsivity
A1  - Marcotte, David
SP  - 23
EP  - 38
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
N2  - Research to date has accounted for the recent sexual scandal in the Roman Catholic Church primarily with attributions to the personal psychopathology of the individual offenders. This article reviews a portion of the data from the John Jay Study (2004) and a Supplementary Report (2006) that documents the sexual involvement of Roman Catholic clergy from 202 dioceses and 221 religious orders. Summary data dispel common misconceptions of psychopathology in priests. A majority of the incidents took place between 1960-1979 by priests who were ordained in their late 20s and committed their first offense in their mid-30s. These patterns suggest the need for a more complex conceptualization that accounts for the influence of Roman Catholic clerical socialization from 1950 to 1969 and the contemporaneous shifts in American culture.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1072-0162
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10720160701876336
ID  - ref1
ER  -