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A Legal Response Is Necessary For Self Produced Child Pornography: A Legislator's Checklist For Drafting The Bill, Susan Duncan Mar 2010

A Legal Response Is Necessary For Self Produced Child Pornography: A Legislator's Checklist For Drafting The Bill, Susan Duncan

Susan Duncan

This Article explores self produced child pornography, known in the media as “sexting,” and offers a balanced, multi-faceted approach including both a legal response and education. Currently, states are modifying their laws because applying existing child pornography statutes to self produced child pornography results in a punishment which does not fit the crime. The author analyzes and critiques these proposed statutes finding none adequately address the multiple facets of the self produced child pornography problem. The Article concludes by offering a checklist of important provisions legislators should consider and proposed language legislators can incorporate into their bills. Policymakers and scholars …

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Crime And Punishment: Teen Sexting In Context, Julia Halloran Mclaughlin Dec 2009

Crime And Punishment: Teen Sexting In Context, Julia Halloran Mclaughlin

Julia Halloran McLaughlin

Technology has, once again, outpaced the law. In the sixties, spin the bottle and seven minutes in heaven introduced young teens to the mysteries of the opposite sex. In the seventies, a racy Polaroid picture seemed miraculous. Now, the societal veil cloaking teenage sexuality has been lifted entirely and budding libidos have escaped from dim basements into cyber space. Sex is omnipresent in our society: on prime-time TV, in magazines, movies and on the web. Youth is glorified and sex is celebrated and youthful sex joins these twin ideals. Our constitution protects free expression. Now that every teen with a …

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