Sexual abuse, shonda and concealment in Orthodox Jewish communities
By: Michael Lesher ; foreword by Dane S. Claussen
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780786471256; 9781476615974
Subjects: Child sexual abuse; Ethnology; Judaism; Conspiracies; Truth Disclosure; Sexually abused children; Shame; Sexual Child Abuse; Orthodox Judaism; Psychological Denial; Mandatory Reporting; Psychology
Description: "This book is the first to analyze, and attempt to explain the methods by which cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically concealed in Orthodox Jewish communities. The book describes a number of characteristic cases of such cover-ups"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Dane S. Claussen; title: Introduction; title: Coverage and cover-ups; title: Some you (may) know about; title: The ones that got away; title: Child sex abuse as news; title: Backlash strategies, past and present; title: Who guards the guardians?; title: Abuse of power, orthodox style; title: Truth and consequences; title: Courting disaster : how rabbinic courts can control a sex; title: Self-policing or "thought-policing"; title: The culture of denial; title: A history of silence; title: 10. The politics of piety; title: East of eden : "innocence," sex and sex abuse; title: Out of the closet; title: Chapter notes; title: Selected bibliography; title: Index.