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New York, NY: Penguin Books.
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religious movement confrontations. In D. G. Broomley &G.
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About the Authors
Dianne Casoni, PhD, is a Full Professor,
School of Criminology, University of Montreal
and an Associate Professor, Department of
Psychology, Université du Québec a Montréal.
She is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and
member of the Canadian Psychoanalytical
Society and the International Psychoanalytic
Association. Dr. Casoni is the author of more
than eighty articles and book chapters on
psychology and the law, sexual abuse of
children, treatment of victims, wife assault, and
the psychodynamic understanding of cults. She
has coauthored a book on the psychoanalytical
understanding of the criminal mind and edited a
book on terrorism, both in French.
Adriana Pacheco, PhD, originally from
Mexico, immigrated to Canada in 1993. She
received her PhD in Criminology from the
University of Montreal in 2010. Her principal
field of research interest is crimes committed
with religious motivations, particularly violence
toward children.
Michael Kropveld is founder and Executive
Director of Info-Cult/Info-Secte, based in
Montreal, Canada, and sits on the board of the
International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA).
Since 1980 he has assisted thousands of former
members and members of cults, new religious
movements, and other groups, and their families.
He has served as an expert witness on cult-
related criminal and civil cases, and is consulted
regularly by mental-health professionals and
law-enforcement agencies. Since the mid 1990s
he has collaborated on the organizing of the
ICSA annual international conferences on cultic
phenomena. He has been an invited speaker
worldwide, and has appeared on many radio and
television programs locally, nationally, and
internationally. Among other publications, he
coauthored, in 2006 The Cult Phenomenon: How
Groups Function/Le phénomène des sectes:
L'étude du fonctionnement des groups (both
versions are downloadable for free at
http://www.infocult.org). He was awarded the
125 Commemorative Medal in 1992 by the
Government of Canada in recognition of
significant contribution to compatriots,
community, and to Canada. And in 2007 he
received the Herbert L. Rosedale Award from
ICSA in recognition of leadership in the effort to
preserve and protect individual freedom.
International Journal of Cultic Studies ■ Vol. 6, 2015 99
violence envers les enfants :le cas de l’Église baptiste de Widsor.
Criminologie, 41(2), 53–92.
Québec. (1979). Loi sur la protection de la jeunesse. LQR-P-34.1.
Québec :Éditeur officiel du Québec.
Recueils de jurisprudence du Québec (1986). Protection de la
jeunesse –224 (TJ). Québec, Canada :RJQ :2711–2720.
Roy, J.-Y. (1998). Le syndrome du Berger :essai sur les
dogmatismes contemporains. Québec, Canada :Les éditions du
Boréal.
Wallis, R. (1982). The Social construction of charisma. Social
Compass, 29(1), 25–39.
Weber, M. (1906). The Protestant ethic and the spirit of
capitalism, Translated by Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells, 2002.
New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Wright, S. A. (2002). Public agency involvement in governement-
religious movement confrontations. In D. G. Broomley &G.
Melton (Eds.), Cults, religion &violence (102–122). Cambridge,
MA :Cambridge University Press.
Zablocki, B. D. (1980). Alienation and charisma. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press.
About the Authors
Dianne Casoni, PhD, is a Full Professor,
School of Criminology, University of Montreal
and an Associate Professor, Department of
Psychology, Université du Québec a Montréal.
She is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and
member of the Canadian Psychoanalytical
Society and the International Psychoanalytic
Association. Dr. Casoni is the author of more
than eighty articles and book chapters on
psychology and the law, sexual abuse of
children, treatment of victims, wife assault, and
the psychodynamic understanding of cults. She
has coauthored a book on the psychoanalytical
understanding of the criminal mind and edited a
book on terrorism, both in French.
Adriana Pacheco, PhD, originally from
Mexico, immigrated to Canada in 1993. She
received her PhD in Criminology from the
University of Montreal in 2010. Her principal
field of research interest is crimes committed
with religious motivations, particularly violence
toward children.
Michael Kropveld is founder and Executive
Director of Info-Cult/Info-Secte, based in
Montreal, Canada, and sits on the board of the
International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA).
Since 1980 he has assisted thousands of former
members and members of cults, new religious
movements, and other groups, and their families.
He has served as an expert witness on cult-
related criminal and civil cases, and is consulted
regularly by mental-health professionals and
law-enforcement agencies. Since the mid 1990s
he has collaborated on the organizing of the
ICSA annual international conferences on cultic
phenomena. He has been an invited speaker
worldwide, and has appeared on many radio and
television programs locally, nationally, and
internationally. Among other publications, he
coauthored, in 2006 The Cult Phenomenon: How
Groups Function/Le phénomène des sectes:
L'étude du fonctionnement des groups (both
versions are downloadable for free at
http://www.infocult.org). He was awarded the
125 Commemorative Medal in 1992 by the
Government of Canada in recognition of
significant contribution to compatriots,
community, and to Canada. And in 2007 he
received the Herbert L. Rosedale Award from
ICSA in recognition of leadership in the effort to
preserve and protect individual freedom.
International Journal of Cultic Studies ■ Vol. 6, 2015 99
