NOTES
(1) The John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors By Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 1950-2002 (Washington, DC: USCCB, 2004), 26-27, available at: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/the-nature-and-scope-of-sexual-abuse-of-minors-by-catholic-priests-and-deacons-in-the-united-states-1950-2002.pdf.
(2) The John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors By Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: 2006 Supplementary Report (Washington, DC: USCCB, 2006), available at: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/Nature-and-Scope-supplemental-data-2006.pdf.
(3)The John Jay College of Criminal Justices, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010 (Washington, DC: USCCB, 2011), 16. Available at” http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Causes-and-Context-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-in-the-United-States-1950-2010.pdf.
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10. Hasn’t the research on this crisis already been done?
The John Jay Reports
Through its National Review Board, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned an in-depth study of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. The result of that $1.8 million project, spread over the better part of a decade, was presented to the bishops in the form of two reports (each, in turn, with a supplement):
The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 1950-2002 was presented in 2004 (1) (with a supplemental data analysis presented in 2006) (2); and
The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010 (3) was presented in 2011 (with an interim report made available in 2009) (4).
The result was a monumental contribution toward understanding