Psychologist Michael Salamon offers definitions of abuse and describes signs that should indicate to parents, teachers, and school officials that abuse might be occurring.

This book draws the reader into an unflinching account of the still emerging sexual abuse scandal plaguing the Catholic Church and its impact on the survivors and their families across America.

This book investigates the corrupt activity of a myriad of clergy members.

Written by the reporters who broke the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer prize-winning Spotlight series into the cover up of clergy sex abuse in the Boston Archdiocese.

In this searing memoir of survival, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.

The plot of this realistic fiction novel involves the kidnapping and subsequent trial of an American Bishop, who helps develop new practices within the Catholic church.

This book details the secret legal system within the Catholic Church that has contributed to the Vatican’s failures with respect to clergy sex abuse.

This story, written from the perspective of a survivor, provides both encouragement for victims and information for friends and family on how they can support loved ones in their long-term recovery.

This book tells a dramatic true story of how Jessop ultimately escaped and has been fighting against frustrating obstacles with hard fought successes in rescuing women and children from the FLDS.

This book examines why individuals joined and left various religious movements or cults.

The author describes her upbringing in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous cult that has routinely married girls to older men, and what it took for her to leave.

This book provides a modern approach to “undue influence” in a post-9/11 world.

This book makes the case for the law to apply to religious actors to prevent harm to others, including a full chapter on children.

It turns out that a major reason we know as much as we do about sex abuse in the Catholic church as a result of civil lawsuits.

The author of this searing and revealing novel about sex abuse in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, Judy Brown, originally wrote the book under a pseudonym, Eishes Chayel. She came forward for the first time in the online resource below.

A Harvard-educated sociologist and therapist tells the story of her recovered memories about ritualistic sexual abuse by her father, the noted Mormon scholar, Hugh Nibley.

This book reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound.

Investigative reporter Michael D’Antonio delves into the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandals.

Michael Unglo’s story helps us to understand how parents, members of society, and child abuse advocates can make the world safer for the most vulnerable among us.

The Children of God, a California-based cult that became a sex cult, has been profiled in Rolling Stone and elsewhere.

A collection of essays by leading experts on topics related to children’s rights and protection.

This collection of articles provides a sober and sobering analysis of the interlacing historical, doctrinal, and psychological issues that came together in the sexual abuse scandal.

Award-winning investigative journalist, Jason Berry, delves into the system of top-down secrecy that characterized Pope John Paul II’s papacy.

This book documents and analyzes the long history of sex abuse in the Catholic Church.

This book examines different instances of systematic cover-ups of child sexual abuse in Orthodox Jewish communities.

This book is about clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. It is insightful and takes a humane perspective from a position of faith.

A gripping story that takes you on the journey of a child abuse and sexual assault survivor turned activist and her experience within the Amish community.

This books discusses about the inspiring account of Jessop’s journey after leaving the FLDS.

This book discusses the evasions and deceit that occurred in Pope John Paul II’s papacy.

A collection of articles exploring religious leaders’ abuse of authority and the victimization their followers.