Children, Sexuality, and the Law / / ed. by Ellen Marrus, Sacha M. Coupet.
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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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Families, Law, and Society ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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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