Through the “Lens” of the Organizational Culture Perspective:

A Descriptive Study of American Catholic Bishops’ Understanding of Clergy Sexual Molestation and Abuse of Children and Adolescents

 

 

A dissertation presented

 

by

 

Barbara Susan Balboni

 

to

The Law, Policy, and Society Program

 

 

In partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of

 

Doctor of Philosophy

 

in the field of

 

Law, Policy, and Society

 

Northeastern University

 Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

September 1998

 

ã 1998, Barbara Susan Balboni

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