Children, sexuality, and the law / edited by Sacha M. Coupet and Ellen Marrus.

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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