Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses

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 criminalization of behavior in these areas?

Suzanne Ost addresses these and other important questions, exploring the critical tensions within legal and social discourses that 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.

Author: Suzanne Ost
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521885829

About the Author
Ost, Suzanne: - Suzanne Ost is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University. She is also assistant editor for the Medical Law Review journal and a member of both the Society of Legal Scholars and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.