Children, sexuality, and the law / edited by Sacha M. Coupet and Ellen Marrus.
Material type: TextSeries: Families, law, and society seriesPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 0814744478
- 9780814744475
- 9780814724217
- 0814724213
- Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Children and sex -- United States
- Children's rights -- United States
- Sexual rights -- United States
- Child sex offenders -- United States
- Sexual minority youth -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States
- Enfants et sexualité -- États-Unis
- Enfants -- Droits -- États-Unis
- Droits sexuels -- États-Unis
- Enfants délinquants sexuels -- États-Unis
- LAW -- Criminal Law -- General
- Child sex offenders
- Children and sex
- Children -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Children's rights
- Juvenile justice, Administration of
- Sexual rights
- United States
- 345.7302/530835 23
- KF479 .C465 2015eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction / Sacha M. Coupet and Ellen Marrus -- Smells like teen spirit: the conundrum of kids, sex, and the law / Paul R. Abramson and Annaka Abramson -- Consent, teenagers, and (un)civil(ized) consequences / Jennifer Ann Drobac -- The wages of ignorance / Franklin E. Zimring -- Sugar and spice and everything nice: definitely not the girls in the juvenile justice system / Ellen Marrus -- Sexual media and American youth / Piotr Bobkowski and Autumn Shafer -- Sex, laws, and videophones: the problem of juvenile sexting -- Prosecutions / Seth F. Kreimer -- The right to comprehensive sex education / Hazel G. Beh -- Policing gender on the playground: interests, needs, and rights of transgender and gender non-conforming youth / Sacha M. Coupet -- Gender at the crossroads: LGBT youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems / Barbara Fedders.
American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human development, law rarely contemplates the complex ways in which it interacts with children and sexuality. Just as the law circumscribes children to a narrow range of roles-either as entirely sexless beings or victims or objects of harmful adult sexual conduct-so too does society tend to discount the notion of children as agents in the domain of sex and sexuality. Where a small body of rights related to sex has been carved out, the central question has.
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