Adolescents, Rapid Social Change, and the Law

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Adolescence, Rapid Social Change, and the Law

      • Roger J.R. Levesque

      Pages 3-25

3. Media

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Protecting Youth from Themselves in the Media: The Right to Be Forgotten

      • Sun Ho Kim

      Pages 29-54

   3. Protecting Youth from Sexualized Media: Media Literacy

      • Mary E. Mancuso

      Pages 55-73

   4. Protecting Youth from Dangerous Media: Online Predators

      • Leo K. Yang

      Pages 75-92

   5. Protecting Youth’s Right to Engage Media: Sexting

      • Haley Johnston

      Pages 93-105

4. Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Protecting Students from Racial Discrimination in Public Schools

      • Robert Crawford

      Pages 109-124

   3. Protecting Financially Disadvantaged Students’ Educational Rights

      • Megan Lawson

      Pages 125-135

   4. Protecting Students’ Sexual Identity in Private Schools

      • Lauren Harrell

      Pages 137-151

5. Families and Communities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Protecting Financially Successful Youth’s Incomes

      • Alyshia Jiwan

      Pages 155-169

   3. Protecting Youth’s Relationships with Deployed Parents

      • Jessica Ans

      Pages 171-194

   4. Protecting Youth from Trafficking

      • Ellen Fredbeck

      Pages 195-206

6. Back Matter

   Pages 207-213

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This book reviews broad social changes affecting youth development and the inconsistency of the legal system in updating its approach to adolescents’ rights. Legal experts examine current adolescent protections and offer research-based proposals for revising laws that underserve or criminalize youth under the rubric of protection. Focusing on the key areas of technology and media, education, and personal relationships, chapters discuss legal responses to a range of challenges impacting young people, including sexual exploitation, the right to privacy, military family issues, and the school-to-prison pipeline. The book’s nuanced concept of legal protection credits youth with greater competence than currently afforded, in hope that adolescents can take more ownership of their evolving lives in a rapidly changing society.

Topics featured in this volume include:

• How to balance freedom of expression with adolescents’ right to data protection. The sexualization of media and its effects on youth attitudes and behaviors. 
  
• The rising phenomenon of teenage sexting. 
  
• Protecting students’ sexual identity in private schools. 
  
• Youth sex and labor trafficking and possible solutions to alleviate the widespread crime.

Adolescents, Rapid Social Change, and the Law is a must-have resource for researchers and professors, clinicians and related professionals as well as graduate students in developmental psychology, family studies, public health, educational policy and politics, and social policy.

• Adolescents and changing sexual relationships
• Adolescents and media
• Adolescents and school choice
• Adolescents and technological challenges
• Adolescents in changing schools
• Adolescents’ sexual consent and decriminalization
• Adolescents’ sexual offending
• Developmental science and law
• Developmental science and social policy
• Discipline and diverse adolescents
• Education during adolescence
• Legal structures and adolescence
• Online networks and adolescent victims
• Social structures and adolescence
• Technology and adolescence
• The right to be forgotten and adolescence
• Victimology and adolescents

“This book is dedicated to helping families, guardians, friends, and mentors of young people help those same young people navigate through social changes. … Many of the principles present are good and can be implemented under God.” (Justin Dilliplane, Resolved for Christ, resolvedfc.blogspot.de, February, 2018)

• Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

  Roger J.R. Levesque

Roger J. R. Levesque, JD, PhD, is a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University and Maurer School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence as well as the New Criminal Law Review and Adolescent Research Review. He is an award-winning author of over a dozen books, most recently Adolescents, Discrimination, and the Law (NYU, 2015), Adolescents, Privacy and the Law (Oxford, 2016) and soon-to-be-released, The Science and Law of School Segregation and Diversity (Oxford, 2017).

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