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  • Read more: Too Young For Sex, But Old Enough For The Sex Offender Registry, Part III
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    Too Young For Sex, But Old Enough For The Sex Offender Registry, Part III

    By Michele Goodwin I conclude Part III in this series from Uganda—a nation recovering from what one doctor describes as a “genocide” from HIV and AIDS. Parts I and II can be found here and here. As a society, do we really care that teens and preteens have sex? On the one hand we care…

  • Read more: Too Young for Sex, But Old Enough for the Sex Offender Registry, Part II
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    Too Young for Sex, But Old Enough for the Sex Offender Registry, Part II

    By Michele Goodwin This post is the second in a three part series on the use of criminal law to police teen sex.  The first part can be viewed here. In recent years, thousands of judicial proceedings against children result in teens as young as thirteen being adjudicated as sexual predators and placed on sex…