Causes and Context Study
Interim Report

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
November 17, 2009

On November 17, 2009, Margaret Smith and Karen Terry, of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, presented an Interim Report on the Causes and Context Study commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The researchers did not release a report, but they did share a printout of the slides from their presentation.

Below we provide a PDF of the slide handout, together with the USCCB's press release and two articles on the Interim Report. These materials are helpful for understanding the evolution of the Causes and Context effort, which began with the Bennett Report, released in February 2004 along with the Nature and Scope report.

• Causes and Context Study: Interim Report, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, presented to the USCCB on November 17, 2009, dated November 12, 2009
  
  
  
• John Jay Researchers Offer Update on Causes and Context Study: Early Findings Confirm Steep Decline in Sexual Abuse Cases after 1985, Emphasize the Importance of Seminary Training, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, November 17, 2009
  
  
• New Catholic Sex Abuse Findings: Gay Priests Are Not the Problem, by David Gibson, Politics Daily, November 18, 2009
  
  
• Report: Homosexuality No Factor in Abusive Priests, by Rachel Zoll, Associated Press, November 17, 2009