Children, sexualisation and the law
Fanghanel, Alexandra
ORCID: 0000-0002-4041-561X
and Milne, Emma
(2021)
Children, sexualisation and the law.
In: Fanghanel, Alexandra
ORCID: 0000-0002-4041-561X
, Milne, Emma, Zampini, Giulia Federica
ORCID: 0000-0002-9456-4792
, Banwell, Stacy
ORCID: 0000-0001-7395-2617
and Fiddler, Michael
ORCID: 0000-0002-0695-6770
, (eds.)
Sex and Crime.
Key Approaches to Criminology
.
SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 255-279.
ISBN 978-1526491138; 978-1529752281; 1529752280
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Abstract
In contemporary social life, there is little that arouses stronger feeling than the conjunction of children and sex. The sexualisation of children is condemned; the sex lives of children are tightly controlled, even criminalised; and paedo¬philes are among the most reviled criminal group in popular discourses. In this chapter, we are going to unpack some of what constructs these strong feelings. We are going to examine what appears to be the taboo of childhood sexuality and the social, cultural and legal ways that this is responded to in contemporary social life. We are going to do this by examining the contrasting ways that childhood sexuality is figured; what happens when children send ‘sexts’ to each other; the controversies around paedophilia; and recent approaches to child sex crimes, including the offence of grooming and atti¬tudes to child sexual exploitation.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | Part Three: Sex, cultures, and crime; Chapter Twelve: Children, sexualisation and the law |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | childhood, sexuality, sexting, desire, paedophilia, grooming |
Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: | Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC) |
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Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2023 10:48 |
URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/30145 |
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