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

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Published date01 March 2017
DOI10.1177/0004865816662479
AuthorClaire Meehan
Date01 March 2017
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 social media, is a practice
amongst young people. Sexting is an area of potential risk of psychological, social, and
legal harm for the participants, both for the originators of the images and the recipients,
not only as a direct consequence of sending images with no control over any subsequent
distribution, but also because of the quasi–legal status of the practice, depending on the
age of participants.
Sexting and Young People explores young people’s practices and perceptions of sext-
ing, and how sexting has been represented in, and responded to by, the media, education
campaigns, and the law. It analyses the important broader socio-legal issues raised by
sexting and the appropriateness of current responses.
Sexting and Young People includes 13 chapters organised into four sections. The f‌irst
section, ‘‘Understanding Sexting by Young People’’ provides a comprehensive introduc-
tion to sexting and the conceptual frameworks governing the practice. Chapters one and
two provide a thorough overview to sexting and young people,...

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