Children, Sexuality, and the Law / / ed. by Ellen Marrus, Sacha M. Coupet.

• MitwirkendeR: Abramson, Annaka,; Abramson, Paul R.,; Beh, Hazel G.,; Bobkowski, Piotr,; Coupet, Sacha M.,; Drobac, Jennifer Ann,; Fedders, Barbara,; Kreimer, Seth F.,; Marrus, Ellen,; Shafer, Autumn,; Zimring, Franklin E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Coupet, Sacha M.,; Marrus, Ellen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Families, Law, and Society ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Conundrum of Kids, Sex, and the Law
• 2. Consent, Teenagers, and (un)Civil(ized) Consequences
• 3. The Wages of Ignorance
• 4. Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Definitely Not the Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
• 5. Sexual Media and American Youth
• 6. Sex, Laws, and Videophones: The Problem of Juvenile Sexting Prosecutions
• 7. The Right to Comprehensive Sex Education
• 8. Policing Gender on the Playground: Interests, Needs, and Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Youth
• 9. Gender at the Crossroads: LGBT Youth in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
• About the Contributors
• Index