Title

Gendered Movement: Negotiating Youth,Sex and Harm in the US Carceral State

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-2017

Abstract

Exempt from the current bipartisan reassessment of the US carceral state are people with convictions for sex offenses. While movements against public registries for sex offenders are scant, a grassroots movement is underway. This article offers a preliminary analysis of the complex consequence of women's political work to extract their sons from the US carceral state. This gendered advocacy is mapped against shifts in the racialised US criminal justice system, where the fluid category of child/juvenile is often unavailable to youth of colour and/or queer youth, and criminalisation is offered to regulate sexuality, consent, age and potential harm.

DOI

10.1111/chso.12198

Publication Title

Children and Society

Volume Number

31

Issue Number

3

First Page

231

Last Page

242

ISSN

09510605

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