“…As for community perceptions, the present review corroborates literature on closed or religious societies, particularly Jewish ones (Farrell & Taylor, 2000; Itzhaky & York, 2001; Katzenstein & Fontes, 2017). It describes how they tend to silence the abuse, doubt the victims, and prevent disclosure and formal therapy since acknowledging the “deviant” threatens the community’s validity, integrity, and patriarchal norms (e.g., Abu-Baker, 2013; Bruns et al, 2005; Harper & Perkins, 2018; Minto et al, 2016; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 1999; Sheldon & Parent, 2002; Yuvarajan & Stanford, 2016) and its hierarchical structure and social control, as well as its members’ reputation (Neustein & Lesher, 2008; Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2016). In some cases, absence of response is due to lack of awareness of the prevalence and characteristics of the phenomenon among community members (Schmid & Benbenishty, 2011).…”