Thursday, January 14, 2010

When Children Become Child Pornographers and the Lolita Effect Undermines the Law

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

It is a sure-fire recipe for legal trouble: combine hormone-raging teens with image-transmitting technologies, and then stir them together in a sex-saturated society replete with outdated laws and a criminal justice system that never could have anticipated such a combustible confluence of forces. Signs and symptoms of this salacious problem are cropping up across the United States . . . This article has two primary goals. First, it attempts to identify and raise questions posed by sexting that might affect and influence how the law treats it. Second, it seeks to address these questions in ways that help to provide a framework for analyzing sexting cases that makes key distinctions between variations of the act of sexting that could (or should) impact a court or legislature’s treatment of it. However, it would be presumptuous to definitively answer all of these questions, given that the legal debate on sexting is only now beginning to emerge. the rest

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