Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Sacha M. Coupet and Ellen Marrus
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Conundrum of Kids, Sex, and the Law 6
Paul R. Abramson and Annaka Abramson
2. Consent, Teenagers, and (un)Civil(ized) Consequences 30
Jennifer Ann Drobac
3. The Wages of Ignorance 72
Franklin E. Zimring
4. Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Definitely Not the Girls in the Juvenile Justice System 87
Ellen Marrus
5. Sexual Media and American Youth 108
Piotr Bobkowski and Autumn Shafer
6. Sex, Laws, and Videophones: The Problem of Juvenile Sexting Prosecutions 133
Seth F. Kreimer
7. The Right to Comprehensive Sex Education 163
Hazel G. Beh
8. Policing Gender on the Playground: Interests, Needs, and Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Youth 186
Sacha M. Coupet
9. Gender at the Crossroads: LGBT Youth in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems 224
Barbara Fedders
About the Contributors 255
Index 259