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Characteristics of exonerated cases of child sexual abuse.

INTRODUCTION: Exonerations provide insight into how the criminal justice system sometimes fails. Exonerations in child sexual abuse (CSA) cases may be of particular interest as it is often impossible …

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Denne, E., Sullivan, C. E., & Neal, T. M. S. (2026). Characteristics of exonerated cases of child sexual abuse.. Front Psychol, 17, 1794898. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1794898

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Questionable 'Good Faith' Reporting: A Study of Web-Based Abuse Reporting in the Canadian Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic Church provides a fruitful contextual basis for assessing good faith reporting of child sexual abuse. Drawing on the literature of organizational decoupling and organizational misco…

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Driscoll, C., & Chigumba, C. C. (2025). Questionable 'Good Faith' Reporting: A Study of Web-Based Abuse Reporting in the Canadian Catholic Church.. J Child Sex Abus, 34(7), 776-795. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2025.2574084

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The impact of clergy sexual abuse on spirituality and health: A systematic scoping review of the literature.

Sexual abuse perpetrated by clergy or other Church leaders can cause harm to the spirituality of people who are subject to this abuse, which also has impacts on their overall health. We conducted a sy…

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Durkin, J., Zordan, R., Bullen, M., Pavich, N., Thomas, P. T. B., Lethborg, C., Holder, W., Jolly, M., Dreise, D., & Fleming, D. (2025). The impact of clergy sexual abuse on spirituality and health: A systematic scoping review of the literature.. PLoS One, 20(4), e0317821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317821

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[Organised abuse in the GDR - A Secondary Analysis of the Victims' Perspective].

OBJECTIVE: Organiszed abuse (OA) is a form of long-lasting, mostly sexualized violence against children, youth, or women by networked perpetrators for financial and power-related enrichment. Individua…

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Laue, P., & Strauß, B. (2025). [Organised abuse in the GDR - A Secondary Analysis of the Victims' Perspective].. Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol, 75(1), 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2422-0496

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Organized sexualized and ritual violence: Results from two representative German samples.

BACKGROUND: Organized sexualized and ritual abuse (ORA), a contentious issue since the 1980s, remains a polarizing topic. Although there is much debate about the existence of this phenomenon, a differ…

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Gerke, J., Fegert, J., Rassenhofer, M., & Fegert, J. M. (2024). Organized sexualized and ritual violence: Results from two representative German samples.. Child Abuse Negl, 152, 106792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106792

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Sexual grooming processes carried out by offending rabbis toward religious men and their families.

BACKGROUND: Research regarding sexual grooming in cases of sexual abuse by religious authorities (SARA) is limited, despite the assumption that many SARA cases go unreported. To the best of our knowle…

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Krinkin, Y., & Dekel, R. (2023). Sexual grooming processes carried out by offending rabbis toward religious men and their families.. Child Abuse Negl, 146, 106491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106491

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Ritual Abuse Survivors' Perspectives on Research Participation: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Online Study.

This exploratory study sought a deeper understanding of the perspectives of self-defined ritual abuse (RA) survivors, who had experienced sexual victimization, on participation in research. A mixed-me…

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Matthew, L., & Barron, I. (2023). Ritual Abuse Survivors' Perspectives on Research Participation: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Online Study.. J Child Sex Abus, 32(5), 637-653. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2023.2211578

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Child Sexual Grooming of Catholic Clergy: A Comparison between Victims Allegedly Abused by Clergy with Single versus Multiple Victims.

There is evidence that clergy who commit child sexual abuse (CSA) may utilize sexual grooming behaviors in the offense process consistent with a content-validated model (Sexual Grooming Model; SGM). A…

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Winters, G. M., Jeglic, E. L., Terry, K. J., & Gilleran, K. (2023). Child Sexual Grooming of Catholic Clergy: A Comparison between Victims Allegedly Abused by Clergy with Single versus Multiple Victims.. J Child Sex Abus, 32(1), 91-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2022.2163020

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"The History And Politics Of 'False Memories': The Australian Experience".

The Australian history of the false memory (FM) movement has similarities to that of the UK and America, but also important differences that are rarely described in the literature. This article, throu…

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McMaugh, K., & Middleton, W. (2022). "The History And Politics Of 'False Memories': The Australian Experience".. J Trauma Dissociation, 23(2), 177-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2022.2028223

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[Background and psychological impact of organised and ritual child sexual abuse: Reports to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany].

OBJECTIVE: Organised child sexual abuse is characterised by commercial exploitation of children and adolescents by networking perpetrator groups. Ritual abuse is further characterised by ideological f…

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Schröder, J., Behrendt, P., Nick, S., & Briken, P. (2020). [Background and psychological impact of organised and ritual child sexual abuse: Reports to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany].. Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr, 88(6), 374-378. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1149-2103

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Demystifying ritual abuse - insights by self-identified victims and health care professionals.

Empirical evidence on organized and ritual child sexual abuse (ORA), that is, organized child sexual abuse with an ideological framework, is rare and definitions of the term "ritual" are often vague o…

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Schröder, J., Nick, S., Richter-Appelt, H., & Briken, P. (2020). Demystifying ritual abuse - insights by self-identified victims and health care professionals.. J Trauma Dissociation, 21(3), 349-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2020.1719260

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The Importance of Religious/Ritual Abuse as a Traumatic Predictor of Dissociation.

This study aimed to ascertain the prevalence of different types of Religious/Ritual Abuse (RA) among Iranian young adults and to investigate the relationships between RA, childhood and recent trauma, …

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Nobakht, H. N., & Yngvar, D. a. l. e. . K. (2018). The Importance of Religious/Ritual Abuse as a Traumatic Predictor of Dissociation.. J Interpers Violence, 33(23), 3575-3588. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517723747

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