ABSTRACT
In surveying all the possible types of victimization, or malfeasance, at the hands of sexually rapacious, financially amoral, and authoritarian religious elites, there is a need to address the issue of possible complicity. The sociologists, however, conducted in-depth interviews with twenty-four women in the diocese to determine levels of victimization. The chapter deals with victim advocacy groups that arise to advertise victims' existence, their hurt and outrage, and to expose crooked, unrighteous clerical brokers. Victim complicity in instances of clergy misconduct is a range of possible involvement, and some kinds of abuse actually require some measure of it, with sexual abuse likely relying on it the least. Concluding Thomas Doyle, A. W. Richard Sipe, and Patrick J. Wall in analyzing Roman Catholic Church responses to thousands of victims: There is much evidence to show that victims who complained were consistently seen as traitors and disloyal to their church.
