Catholic Dioceses, Legal Systems, and Corporate Accountability

This book explores how different legal systems handle a particularly difficult type of corporate wrongdoing: Catholic dioceses’ responsibility for child sexual abuse.

Usually, when people think about corporate wrongdoing, they think about tax fraud, insider trading, and similar ‘white-collar’ crime. As corporations, dioceses’ responsibility for child sexual abuse exists separately from that of individual perpetrators, and this corporate responsibility is the focus of this book.