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on perceived perpetrator and victim credibility? Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment &Trauma, 29(8),
897–916. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2020.1774695
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Case study 18: findings report: Australian Christian Churches. Commonwealth of Australia.
https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/file-list/Case%20Study%2018%20
-%20Findings%20Report%20-%20Australian%20Christian%20Churches.pdf
Crossman, K. A., &Hardesty, J. L. (2018). Placing coercive control at the center: What are the processes of
coercive control and what makes control coercive? Psychology of Violence, 8(2), 196–206.
https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000094
de Weger, S. E. (2016). Clerical sexual misconduct involving adults within the Roman Catholic Church [Master’s
thesis]. Queensland University of Technology. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/96038/
Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs. (n.d.). Wheel gallery.
http://www.theduluthmodel.org/training/wheels.html
Domestic Violence and Prevention Centre. (2017). Understanding the power and control wheel.
https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/understanding-power-control-wheel/
Doyle, T.P. (2003). Roman Catholic clericalism, religious duress, and clergy sexual abuse. Pastoral Psychology,
51, 189–231. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021301407104
Fitzpatrick, S. J., Brew, B. K., Handley, T., &Perkins, D. (2022). Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal
violence: A mixed methods exploratory study. Sociology of Health &Illness, 44(6), 991–1008.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13476
Flynn, K. A. (2003). The sexual abuse of women by members of the clergy. McFarland.
Flynn, K. A. (2008). In their own voices: Women who were sexually abused by members of the clergy.
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 17(3–4), 216–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538710802329684
Freyd, J. J. (1996). Betrayal trauma: The logic of forgetting childhood abuse. Harvard University Press.
Freyd, J. J. (1997). Violations of power, adaptive blindness and betrayal trauma theory. Feminism &Psychology,
7(1), 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353597071004
Gallagher, S. K. (2003). Evangelical identity and gendered family life. Rutgers University Press.
Gardner, F. (2021). Sex, power, control: Responding to abuse in the institutional church. Lutterworth Press.
Garland, D. R. (2006). When wolves wear shepherds’ clothing: Helping women survive clergy sexual abuse.
Journal of Religion &Abuse, 8(2), 37–70. https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/96038.
Garland, D. R., &Argueta, C. (2010). How clergy sexual misconduct happens: A qualitative study of first-hand
accounts. Social Work &Christianity, 37(1), 1–27
Harsey, S., &Freyd, J. J. (2020). Deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender (DARVO): What is the influence
on perceived perpetrator and victim credibility? Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment &Trauma, 29(8),
897–916. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2020.1774695
