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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.

Title Child pornography and sexual grooming : legal and societal responses / Suzanne Ost. [electronic resource]
Additional Titles Child Pornography & Sexual Grooming
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 2009
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Series Cambridge studies in law and society
Extent 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010711071705171
MARC RECORDS
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