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Two Truths And A Lie: Stories At The Juncture Of Teen Sex And The Law, Michelle Oberman
Two Truths And A Lie: Stories At The Juncture Of Teen Sex And The Law, Michelle Oberman
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Laws governing adolescent sexuality are incoherent and chaotically enforced, and legal scholarship on the subject neither addresses nor remedies adolescents’ vulnerability in sexual encounters. To posit a meaningful relationship between the criminal law and adolescent sexual encounters, one must examine what we know about adolescent sexuality from both the academic literature and the adults who control the criminal justice response to such interactions. This article presents an in-depth study of In re John Z., a 2003 rape prosecution involving two seventeen-year-olds. Using this case, I explore the implications of the prosecution by interviewing a variety of experts and analyzing the …
Andenaes And The Theory Of Deterence, Larry I. Palmer
Andenaes And The Theory Of Deterence, Larry I. Palmer
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