Child pornography and sexual grooming : legal and societal responses / Suzanne Ost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ost, Suzanne, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child pornography.

Child sexual abuse.

Child pornography--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Child Pornography & Sexual Grooming

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Child pornography and sexual grooming provide case study exemplars of problems that society and law have sought to tackle to avoid both actual and potential harm to children. Yet despite the considerable legal, political and societal concern that these critical phenomena attract, they have not, thus far, been subjected to detailed socio-legal and theoretical scrutiny. How do society and law construct the harms of child pornography and grooming? What impact do constructions of the child have upon legal and societal responses to these phenomena? What has been the impetus behind the expanding criminalisation of behaviour in these areas? Suzanne Ost addresses these and other important questions, exploring the critical tensions within legal and social discourses which must be tackled to discourage moral panic reactions towards child pornography and grooming, and advocating a new, more rational approach towards combating these forms of exploitation.

Contents:

Introduction: Constructions, themes and critical tensions

The modern day phenomena of child pornography and sexual grooming

Criminalizing child pornography and behaviour related to sexual grooming

Matters of harm and exploitation

Moral panics and the impact of the construction of childhood innocence

The law elsewhere and questions of individual rights

Conclusions and implications.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511730047

Access Restriction:

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