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- Title
State Intervention Against The Baptist Church of Windsor: From Law- Abiding Citizens to Perpetrators of Severe Child Physical Abuse.
- Authors
Casoni, Dianne; Pacheco, Adriana; Kropveld, Mike
- Abstract
Based on a case study, this article presents the evolution of The Baptist Church of Windsor toward an authoritarian and cult-type functioning wherein, isolated from their social environment, members resorted to severe child physical abuse. An exhaustive analysis of documents, testimonies of former members, and interviews with key participants point to the leader as having played an important role in the group's evolution. The group's trajectory from its origin to its dissolution is presented and described with an emphasis on the role played by the leader and on the group's struggles with the law and with social-control agencies. Finally, issues raised concerning the process of victimization of the children and the choice of intervention by social-control agencies are discussed.
- Subjects
INTERVENTION (Federal government); BAPTISTS; PHYSICAL abuse; SOCIAL control; CRIME victims; CHILD abuse
- Publication
International Journal of Cultic Studies, 2015, Vol 6, p83
- ISSN
2154-7270
- Publication type
Article