Phil Johnson, of Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors, said: "Complacency by leaders of institutions within British society has enabled perpetrators to act in the way that they have.
But by ignoring claims of abuse, some members of the community had enabled the perpetrators to "do this again and again, and then helping them to cover it up, never forcing them to be stopped or held to account, and also stopping any victims from coming forward".
I was enraged to hear that Islam was used in the most perverse ways to maintain women's vulnerability and persecution and enable the perpetrators, who are usually men, to coerce and control them.
Telling the models to "go work somewhere else" or "grow a brain," just enables the perpetrators and further belittles largely adolescent models, who are already being exposed to a ton of abuse, both sexually and financially.
But the saga also demands a fresh look at how intoxication is used to simultaneously exonerate male sexual abusers while condemning the women accusing them of crimes and how other aspects of American drug laws and the country's deeply entrenched cultural mores about substance use serve to enable violent perpetrators.
Decade after decade, the church hid its sordid crimes, enabling the collared perpetrators instead of letting the police collar them.
To use Putnam's (2000) example, it was the negative consequences of social capital that enabled the perpetrator of the widespread destruction and fatalities in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Furthermore, repatriation of foreign troops and increased movement of local militia enables local, civilian perpetrators to continue to use the presence of foreigners' as cover to attack with impunity [ 13].
The greed of its perpetrators, and of the enabling politicians of both parties who took their cut before the wipeout, looks even uglier against the stark backdrop of those less well-connected Americans who are fighting our war.
One about enabling them to become protectors, not perpetrators.
