Holding bishops accountable : how lawsuits helped the Catholic Church confront clergy sexual abuse /

"Stories of the tort system as an engine of social justice are rare. Holding Bishops Accountable tells one such story by revealing how pleadings, discovery documents, and depositions fueled media coverage of the scandal. Timothy Lytton shows how the litigation strategy of plaintiffs' lawye...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lytton, Timothy D., 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Catholic Church > Trials, litigation, etc.
Catholic Church
Liability for child sexual abuse > United States.
Child sexual abuse by clergy > United States.
Trials (Child sexual abuse) > United States.
Responsabilité pour abus sexuels à l'égard des enfants > États-Unis.
Abus sexuels à l'égard des enfants par des membres du clergé > États-Unis.
Procès (Abus sexuels à l'égard des enfants) > États-Unis.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Child sexual abuse by clergy
Liability for child sexual abuse
Trials (Child sexual abuse)
Sexueller Missbrauch
Klerus
Kind
Katholische Kirche.
United States
USA
Trials, litigation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A short history
  • Statistics
  • Legal issues
  • Framing clergy sexual abuse as a problem of institutional failure
  • Placing clergy sexual abuse on policy agendas
  • Uncovering concealed information
  • Assessing the results of clergy sexual abuse litigation
  • The complementary policymaking role of tort litigation.

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