Product Description: Recent events such as the clergy abuse scandal in the Catholic Church have brought the once-taboo subject of childhood sexual abuse to the forefront. But despite increasing awareness of the problem, the United States has not succeeded in establishing effective means of deterring and preventing it, leaving the children of today and tomorrow vulnerable...read more

The author argues that the law should govern the conduct of religious individuals and institutions in this analysis of religion as a potent political and legal force that poses particular dangers to the United States' most vulnerable citizens. 35,000 first printing.