| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Families, law, and society series |
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Families, law, and society series.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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Children and sex -- United States
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Children's rights -- United States
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Sexual rights -- United States
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Child sex offenders -- United States
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Sexual minority youth -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Child sex offenders
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Children and sex
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Children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Children's rights
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Juvenile justice, Administration of
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Sexual rights
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LGBTQ+ youth
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coupet, Sacha M., editor.
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Marrus, Ellen, editor.
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| ISBN |
0814744478 |
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9780814744475 |
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9780814724217 |
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0814724213 |
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