Procure Scouts Honor: Sexual Abuse In Americas Most Trusted Institution Executed By Patrick Boyle Represented In Print

criminal in American society is more despised than the man who has sex with children, This is his story. He offends us, but it's time to listen, Hardly a week goes by without news of yet another respected adult Scoutmaster, teacher, priest, or pop singer accused of child molesting.
Into this uproar steps Scout's Honor, which systematically examines the history of sexual abuse in America's most revered youth group and tells us what we should know about men whose desires seem too bizarre to understand.
Through a computer analysis of nearlypreviously secret files on childabusing Scout

leaders through interviews with molesters, victims, investigators, and top Scout officials and by digging through court records andyearold Scout documents, author Patrick Boyle traces sexual abuse from Scouting's roots to today's headlines.
Thought this book would be an attack piece on the Boy Scouts it is to some extent.
But even more important is the descriptions of how pedophiles operate, think, and justify in their minds their actions.
How they are attracted to youth organizations, The book also describes how society and organizations reacted to revelations in thess, Then in the lates, the Boy Scouts changed their view and put in place the strongest Youth Protection training and rules for both leaders and youth.
It is a little out of date because it was before the Boy Scouts put in major criminal investigations for both staff and adult volunteers.


Extremely educational for all who work with youth along with the history of how society has changed its attitudes on how to deal with these issues Boyle was born inin Ballymoney, Co.
Antrim. He worked for the Ulster Bank in Donegal and Wexford, He began writing when he was in his forties, His first collection of short stories, At Night All Cats are Grey, was published in, He also wrote a novel, Like Any Other Man, published in the same year, These two books were followed by two collections of stories, All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye, and A View from Calvary.
He was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters, He died in. .