{"id":333,"date":"2007-12-07T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/12\/07\/abusive-priests-and-the-institutional-response-to-deviant-behavior\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:11:49","slug":"abusive-priests-and-the-institutional-response-to-deviant-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/12\/07\/abusive-priests-and-the-institutional-response-to-deviant-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"abusive priests and the institutional response to deviant behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/476-priests.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141416664337085266\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/477-priests.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>heather hlavka sends word of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/73270\">Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic<\/a><\/em>, a new comic book by the new york archdiocese of the roman catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>two reactions:<\/p>\n<p>1. the comic book seems like a bizarre but straightforward and well-intentioned effort to address real problems, including the sexual abuse of children by church officials.<\/p>\n<p>2. sadly, this effort is unlikely to prevent any abuse. while a comic makes for a good sunday school conversation starter, it is absolutely no bulwark against a calculated power-play by an adult in a position of authority. worse, such efforts seem to imply that <em>children <\/em>are responsible for their own vulnerability &#8212; and that it is their responsibility to become more vigilant in protecting themselves. i hope that the archdiocese is informing priests of this &#8220;no-closed-door&#8221; policy and taking reasonable steps to enforce it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>heather hlavka sends word of Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic, a new comic book by the new york archdiocese of the roman catholic church. two reactions: 1. the comic book seems like a bizarre but straightforward and well-intentioned effort to address real problems, including the sexual abuse of children by church officials. 2. sadly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}