Children, sexuality, and the law /

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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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Coupet, Sacha M. (Editor), Marrus, Ellen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:Families, law, and society series.
Subjects:
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
LGBTQ+ youth
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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