A Comparative Study on Child Abuse and the Absence of Legal Protections for Male Child Sex Abuse Victims in Major South East Asian countries

The focal point of this paper is in highlighting the grim picture in dominant Asian countries China, India, and Pakistan where no practical application of the law is found to protect against the sexual abuse of children, particularly underage boys. An analysis regarding the conditions of sexual abuse in the aforementioned countries is carried out using the scarce reports issued by national governments, which will be supplemented with information from prominent NGOs and media reports. Thereafter, certain gaps in the justice system and law enforcement are identified. Simultaneously, the Western perspective is studied to ascertain how this issue is being addressed in Western societies and to what extent this heinous crime has impacted the lives of individuals. Finally, there is deliberation as to what the East could learn from Western practices for curbing the often-hidden menace of male child sex abuse. Keywords: Child abuse, Child sex abuse, Comparative study, Eastern practice, Gaps in justice system, Law enforcement, Male child abuse, Media reports

Anger, Lamentation, and Common Ground

This essay argues that the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, founded twenty-five years ago, needs to shift focus to deal with the pervasiveness of anger among American Catholics. Instead of striving to achieve agreement through rational dialogue, American Catholics should aim to find common ground in our sorrow by developing liturgies of lamentation to address the pervasive devastation arising from crises such as clergy sex abuse. Lamentation finds common ground in the common experience of loss, without insisting that everyone attribute the loss to the same cause or agree upon the same path toward renewal.

Civil Liability for Sex Abuse by Muslim Clergy in Spain

State courts of civil law and common law jurisdictions alike are used to applying the rules of direct and indirect tort liability to Christian churches in different ways and with different results. But recent court decisions have put the issue of the civil liability of religious groups for acts of sex abuse by clergy in a different context, that of Islam. A common denominator in the reasoning of courts worldwide is the relevance of religious authority – authority to appoint and supervise clergy or authority vested in clergy – as an important factor in the attribution of civil liability. But Islam is a religion whose organizational structure and ministers are simply too different from those of the various Christian churches, so that state courts run the risk of wrongly applying to Islamic communities and Muslim entities the same categories and legal principles they usually apply in other, more common, cases of sex abuse.

Incorporating Quaternary Prevention: Understanding the Full Scope of Public Health Practices in Sexual Abuse Prevention

This discussion piece argues for a refinement in our understanding of prevention in sexual abuse, suggesting that we include quaternary prevention on the grounds that this concept from medical literature has potential and helpful application to criminal justice and particularly to work with those who cause sexual harm. Located within the paradigm of Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim), quaternary prevention extends the prevention spectrum to enable a stronger distinction between tertiary level responses and long-term safe, sustainable reintegration into communities, particularly of those who sexually abuse others. The key principles of quaternary prevention are adapted and refined from current medical literature, and the potential usefulness of quaternary prevention to crime and sex abuse prevention is explored.

The Catholic Church abuse scandal in Ireland: two steps forward, one step back by Pope Francis?

PurposeIreland is viewed as the shining base for Catholicism. That image is shattered as survivors revealed the abuse in the Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes, and sexual abuse by priests. This study aims to examine image repair efforts by the Pope during his August 2018 visit.Design/methodology/approachExamined against the Letter of His Holiness released days earlier, this study evaluates all the Pope's speeches during his visit to Ireland using the image repair theory (Benoit and Pang, 2008) as its theoretical lens.FindingsPope Francis used the evasion of responsibility strategy to address the Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes scandal and denial, corrective action and mortification for sex abuse crisis.Research limitations/implicationsAddresses call by Ferguson et al. (2018) to examine the consistency and effectiveness of strategies.Practical implicationsBeyond rhetoric, stakeholders would be looking to organizational leaders to provide relief and concrete steps to recover from their pain.Originality/valueA leader's narratives represent the organization's narratives; thus, insights from this study can help leaders plan what they should say when conducting image repair. It is not just their own reputations that are on the line but, in this case, it is also the reputations of the people they represent

Tinjauan Yuridis Penerapan Tindakan Keberi Kimia Terhadap Pelaku Persetubuhan Pada Anak Di Kejaksaan Negeri Kabupaten Bogor (Studi Kasus Perkara Atas Nama Hendra Iskandar dengan Nomor Berkas Perkara: B/60/X/2018/Reskrim)

Indonesia has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child which means that Indonesia is bound by international law to implement provisions in the CRC to adopt legislative, administrative and programmatic measures to ensure children's rights are realized with the issuance of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 Year 2016 which was passed into law as the second revision to Child Protection Law Number 23 of 2002 on Child Protection. The ratification of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 Year 2016 is a form of crunch against the high cases of child sex abuse because the criminal sanctions imposed on perpetrators of child sexual abuse have not had a deterrent effect and have not been able to comprehensively prevent the occurrence of sexual violence against children, so it is necessary to immediately amend Law Number 23 of 2002 on Child Protection. Government Regulation in Lieu of Law Number 1 Year 2016 imposes sanctions for perpetrators of sexual crimes that add to the basic penalty of death and life imprisonment and additional criminal acts of chemical castration, the addition of provisions on the act of chemical castration is a form of legal reform because punishing violators with the death penalty is no longer constitutional and those who are released often return and end up in prison, therefore it is necessary to find other rule of law and humane methods to treat these offenders.