Children as 'risk' : sexual exploitation and abuse by children and young people /
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| Author / Creator: | McAlinden, Anne-Marie, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12576343 |
| Summary: | This book critically examines socio-political constructions of risk related to sexual offending behaviour by and among children and young people and charts the rise of harmful sexual or exploitative behaviour among peers, drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks and primary research. Discussion of these behaviours is exhibited against a backdrop of the premature cultural sexualisation of contemporary childhood, which challenges traditional conceptions of childhood, victimhood and gendered sexual identities more broadly. It examines the complexities of peer-based sexual behaviours in a range of settings, including within organisational contexts such as schools and care homes, within families and peer-based relationships, as well as online contexts including sexting and cyberbullying. It draws out the myriad legal, practical and policy challenges of negotiating the boundaries between normal/experimental, risky/problematic and harmful sexual behaviour, and in particular the demarcation between coercion and consent, both for professionals as well as children and young people themselves. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108693370 9781316534847 1316534847 1108693377 131650798X 9781316507988 9781107144842 1107144841 |