Thomas Crofts, Murray Lee, Alyce McGovern and Sanja Milivojevic, Sexting and young people.

AuthorClaire Meehan
DOI10.1177/0004865816662479
Published date01 March 2017
Date01 March 2017
Published BySage Publications, Inc.
Subject MatterBook Reviews
SG-ANJ-50-01-TOC 1..2 150
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50(1)
Thomas Crofts, Murray Lee, Alyce McGovern and Sanja Milivojevic, Sexting and young people. Palgrave
Macmillan: London, 2015; 263 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-39281-7 E93.59 (hbk)
Reviewed by: Claire Meehan, Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sexting and Young People is marketed primarily to policy makers, academics, educators,
school administrators and students. Research has consistently shown that young people
spend a signif‌icant amount of unsupervised time online (Livingstone & Smith, 2014;
Ofcom, 2015). Teenagers increasingly incorporate digital communications into their
lives in numerous ways. As mechanisms used for socialising, relaxing and possibly
blogging about their daily lives, these new technologies enable young people to live
their lives in new ways. This includes their romantic and sexual lives. ‘‘Sexting’’, sending
nearly-nude or nude images and videos via smartphones and...

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