Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in The Wake of Cleric Sexual Abuse in America

Abstract
Recent revelations of Roman Catholic cleric sexual abuse in America between the 1950’s and 2000’s have similar patterns to other offender groups regarding onset, career duration, and recidivism. As a source of future abuser-perpetrators, “previously abused clerics as well as clerics who exhibited an early onset of abuse were more likely to accumulate police investigations.”