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“Victim-stancing - whereby the offender claims and believes that s/he is the real victim (one of the most prevalent sophistries in the false memory controversies)”

Child Sexual Abuse Offenders Pedophiles Denying Child Abusers Twisted Minds Rapist Victim Perpetrators Child Sexual Abuse Lies Twisting The Truth Cognitive Distortion Real Victims

Book:Dialogues With Forgotten Voices: Relational Perspectives On Child Abuse Trauma And The Treatment Of Severe Dissociative Disorders

Source: Dialogues With Forgotten Voices: Relational Perspectives On Child Abuse Trauma And The Treatment Of Severe Dissociative Disorders

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social action designed to contest the gains made by the women's movement and the child protection movement. In efforts to characterise social workers and therapists as hysterical zealots, 'satanic ritual abuse' was, quite literally, 'made fun of': it became the subject of scorn and ridicule as interest groups sought to discredit testimony of sexual abuse as a whole. The groundswell of support that such efforts gained amongst journalists, academics and the public suggests that the pleasures of disbelief found resonance far beyond the confines of social movements for people accused of sexual abuse. These pleasures were legitimised by a pseudo-scientific vocabulary of 'false memories' and 'moral panic' but as Daly (1999:219-20) points out 'the ultimate goal of ideology is to present itself in neutral, value-free terms as the very horizon of objectivity and to dismiss challenges to its order as the "merely ideological"'. The media spotlight has moved on and social movements for people accused of sexual abuse have lost considerable momentum. However, their rhetoric continues to reverberate throughout the echo chamber of online and 'old' media. Intimations of collusion between feminists and Christians in the concoction of 'satanic ritual abuse' continue to mobilise 'progressive' as well as 'conservative' sympathies for men accused of serious sexual offences and against the needs of victimised women and children. This chapter argues that, underlying the invocation of often contradictory rationalising tropes (ranging from calls for more scientific 'objectivity' in sexual abuse investigations to emotional descriptions of 'happy families' rent asunder by false allegations) is a collective and largely unarticulated pleasure; the catharthic release of sentiments and views about children and women that had otherwise become shameful in the aftermath of second wave feminism. It seems that, behind the veneer of public concern about child sexual abuse, traditional views about the incredibility of women's and children's testimony persist. 'Satanic ritual abuse has served as a lens through which these views have been rearticulated and reasserted at the very time that evidence of widespread and serious child sexual abuse has been consolidating. p60”

Source: Organised Sexual Abuse

“The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how to raise awareness so that other people didn’t have to suffer the same, and how to understand, and then challenge, offenders who so love what they do to children that they can and must shut their minds to the feelings of children who have put their trust in them. P4”

Source: Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony

“In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrary, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.”

Awareness Crime Criminals Guilty Sexual Abuse Rape Child Sexual Abuse Sexual Assault Offenders Society Denial Child Rape Pedophilia Pedophiles Molestation Convicted Crime Reporting Sex Offender Rape Statistics

Book:Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

Source: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“It is gracious to overlook and offence.”

Grace Forgiveness Forgiven Grace Of God Forgiveness Quotes Offence Offenders Forgive And Forget Grace And Favor Grace And Mercy Forgiveness And Letting Go Forgiving Others Grace And Divine Forgiveness Therapy Forgiveness Chance Love Equality Forgiveness Chance Love

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is the fear of retaliation that prevents most people from committing wrong against their enemy. A state or an individual who does not pay back its offenders can`t live honourably.”

Individual Enemy Offenders Retaliation Committing Honourably

Book:Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“For peace of mind, forgiveness is an obligation, not an option. It is the debt we owe our offenders. It's just like turning the table and becoming the one owing your debtor. Abiding by this maxim is sublime.”

Forgiveness Debt Obligation Peace Of Mind Offenders Option

Author:Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“Many trauma survivors anxiously wait for their offender(s) to die and aren’t bothered by their death when it occurs, or they feel relieved when their offender(s) are finally gone.”

Trauma Ptsd Abuse Survivors Offenders Trauma Healing Abusers Trauma Survivors Cptsd Trauma Quotes

Book:You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms

Source: You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms

“For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.”

Men Moving Kings Touching Adversaries Captured Offenders

Author:Howard Staunton

“The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.”

Sound Industry Damage Copies Offenders Sound Of Music

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.”

Force Results Bears Behavior Victim Realization Threatening Describing Mute Offenders Malevolence

Book:Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children

Source: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children

“We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.”

Want Years Three Next Community Four Program Prison Alternatives Four Years Entry Offenders Re Entry

Author:Janet Reno

“Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.”

Sick Forgiving Drinking Poison Bitterness Offenders Counsellors Not Forgiving Drinking Poison

Author:Gary Smalley

“The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.”

Doe Law Danger Waste Nuclear Offenders Notorious Hazardous Waste

Author:John Dingell

“I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.”

Opportunity Equal Guitar Equal Opportunity Offenders

Author:Rick Nielsen

“The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.”

Writing Ends Enemy Patient Vices Honestly Satire Amendments Remedy Physicians Harsh Corrections Offenders

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender”

Mind Faults Guilty Proportion Offenders

Author:Juvenal

“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.”

Political Individual Violence Crime Bottom Injustice Organized Indignation Offenders Organized Crime

Author:Emma Goldman

“. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.”

Long War Effort Drug Disease Solutions Treats Prison Jail Users Long Ago Alcoholism Alcoholics Toss Offenders

Author:Tom McCall

“It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.”

Imagine Offenders Genealogy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.”

Source: India, National Liberation and Class Struggles: A Collection of Classical Marxist Writings

“Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.”

Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

“To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.”

Benefits Offenders

Book:Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.”

Ifs Said Land Fingers Oil Punishment Goddess Offense Wrath Elders Offenders Clans

Book:Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart

“Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.”

Language Causes Communicate Reactions Upset Offenders

Author:Roy Masters

“Every shy person is a potential sex offender.”

Persons Sex Shy Offenders Shy Person Sex Offenders

Author:Nelson Rodrigues

“The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.”

Sometimes Strong Justice Consequence Oneself Zeal Exhibits Equilibrium Oblivious Offenders Unrelenting Ferocity

Author:Robert Aumann

“God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.”

Heart May Doe Sides Tears Balance Authority Judgment Weight Absolutes Errors Casts Scales Kicks Pounds Delicate Vary Beam Seals Offenders Criminality

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]”

Majors Guilt Vices Proportion Offenders

Author:Juvenal

“It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.”

Said Hard Spiritual Forgiveness Forgiving Drinking Alcohol Assets Offenders Never Forgive

Author:Louise Jordan Miln

“There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.”

Divine Ready Forgiveness Embrace Offenders

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.”

One Thing Worst Politician Offenders

Author:Eric Bolling

“The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.”

Should Ends States Body Law Community Principles Ought Office Organization Constitution Determine Relative Governing Offenders Magistrates

Book:Aristotle

Source: Aristotle

“In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.”

Men Needs Young Used Order Alive Young Man Boots Fists Rifles Staying Alive Drills Offenders

Author:David Hackworth

“I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.”

“I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.”

Should Helping Chance Citizens Believer Release Firm Productive Providing Exes Second Chance Workforce Rehabilitation Offenders

Author:Charles Rangel

“As President, I will institute a procedure in which all convicted criminals will have this brass ring will be surgically implanted into their foreheads-Americans have a right to know who they can trust. I don't care if you're 5, 6, or 7 years old, if you're a first-time offender, you're gonna go to Purgatory and it's not gonna be fun!”

Ifs Knows Years Firsts Care Fun President First Time Don't Care Criminals Rings I Don't Care Procedures Foreheads Institute Offenders Brass Purgatory

Author:Bob Backlund

“Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.”

“Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'”

“My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.”

Humans May Self Christian Purpose Jesus Sin Human Nature Duty Forgiveness Forgiving Uncomfortable Accomplished Self Centered Offenders

Author:Gordon Dalbey

“Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.”

Ifs Persons Soul Helping Spiritual Divine Behavior Overcoming Blessed Forgiving Strikes Manifest Righteous Misunderstanding Offenders Strike Back Spiritual Strength

Book:Self-realization Magazine

Source: Self-realization Magazine

“A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.”

Whole Character Evil Lost Opinion Virtue Effects Produce Despair Vices Locals Reputation Former Latter Fling Pernicious Offenders Malady

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.”

Should Has Beens Made Done Turns Particular Anger Grieving Offenders

Book:Bacon's Essays

Source: Bacon's Essays

“An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender.”

Compassion Victim Redemption Apology Offenders

Author:John Kador

“In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrarty, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.”

Children Done Remember Three Victim Caught Interviews Reports Frightening Ignored Offenders

Book:Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children

Source: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children

“Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.”

People Ifs Firsts Might Today Court Offenders Death Row Lenient

Author:Thomas Sowell

“One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.”

“While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.”

Kids Young Youth Involved Charity Rap Teenager Ran Refugee Workshops Offenders

Author:Doc Brown

“People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.”