Sexual abuse, shonda and concealment in Orthodox Jewish communities

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"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"--

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English
Pages
287

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Sexual abuse, shonda and concealment in Orthodox Jewish communities
2014, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
in English

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Table of Contents

Foreword / by Dane S. Claussen
Introduction
Coverage and cover-ups
Some you (may) know about
The ones that got away
Child sex abuse as news
Backlash strategies, past and present
Who guards the guardians?
Abuse of power, orthodox style
Truth and consequences
Courting disaster : how rabbinic courts can control a sex
Self-policing or "thought-policing"
The culture of denial
A history of silence
10. The politics of piety
East of eden : "innocence," sex and sex abuse
Out of the closet
Chapter notes
Selected bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-280) and index.

Published in
Jefferson, North Carolina

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.76088/296832
Library of Congress
HQ72.U53 L47 2014, HQ72.U53L47 2014, HQ72.U53.L47 2014eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 287 pages
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28411518M
ISBN 10
0786471255, 1476615977
ISBN 13
9780786471256, 9781476615974
LCCN
2014019604
OCLC/WorldCat
881318234

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