Policing ‘sexting’: Responsibilization, respectability and sexual subjectivity in child protection/crime prevention responses to teenagers’ digital sexual expression

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A systematic review of the current knowledge regarding revenge pornography and non-consensual sharing of sexually explicit media (2017, background): “Three papers (Angelides, 2013; Karaian, 2014; Lee & Crofts, 2015) discuss this in terms of the ‘deviant discourse’ surrounding sexting that problematizes this behavior.”
Consensual sexting among adolescents: Risk prevention through abstinence education or safer sexting? (2014, background): “…more and more legal experts question and condemn the criminalization of adolescent sexting, especially prosecution under child pornography laws in the U.S. and Australia (Chalfen, 2009; Crofts & Lee, 2013; Day, 200; Karaian, 2013; Lee, Crofts, Salter, Milivojevic, & McGovern, 2013; Stone, 2011).”
‘If a girl’s photo gets sent around, that’s a way bigger deal than if a guy’s photo gets sent around’: gender, sexting, and the teenage years (2018, background): “Gendered risk across private and public spaces Youthful self-exposure to online spaces through webcams and video blogs highlight the agentic and active ways youth are approaching risk through information and communications technologies which can be seen as ‘fun’ (Koskela, 2006, p. 172).”