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Critique of the Catholic Sex Abuse Study

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Channel: AgentOfDoubt · 2011 · Education

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Link to "The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010"
http://www.usccb.org/mr/causes-and-context-of-sexual-abuse-of-minors-by-catholic-priests-in-the-united-states-1950-2010.pdf

Link for the study on sex abuse allegations in an educational setting used to contrast this study in my video:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10660017

Other studies that would be good to compare to this one:

Goodman, G.S., Quas, J.A., Bottoms, B.L., Qin, J. Shaver, P.R., Orcutt, H., & Shapiro, C.
(1997). Children's religious knowledge: implications for understanding satanic ritual abuse allegations. Child Abuse and Neglect, 21(11), 1111-1130.

Hershkowitz, I. (2001). A case study of child sexual false allegation. Child Abuse and Neglect,
25(10), 1397-1411.

Lyon, T. D. (1995). False allegations and false denials in child sexual abuse. Psychology, Public
Policy & Law, 1(2), 429-437.

McCauley, M.R., & Parker, J.F. (2001). When will a child be believed? The impact of the
victim's age and juror's gender on children's credibility and verdict in a sexual-abuse case.
Child Abuse and Neglect, 25(4), 523-539.

Penfold, P.S. (1995). Mendacious moms or devious dads? Some perplexing issues in child
custody/sexual abuse allegation disputes. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 40(6), 337-341.

Poole, D. A., & Lindsay, D. S. (1998). Assessing the accuracy of young children's reports:
Lessons from the investigation of child sexual abuse. Applied & Preventive Psychology, 7(1), 1-26.

Sjoeberg, R.L. (1997). False allegation of satanic abuse: Case studies from the witch panic in
Raettvik 1670-71. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 6(4), 219-226.

Sorensen, T., & Snow, B. (1991). How children tell: the process of disclosure in child sexual
abuse. Child Welfare, 70(1), 3-15.

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