{"title":"Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan","authors":"Hoko Horii","doi":"10.1111/chso.12877","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12877","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines Japan's age of consent law by delving into court judgements, focusing on unravelling the nuances of how the sexual autonomy of children is interpreted. The study reveals a contradictory stance of the court towards child victim's maturity and capacity, indicating that the legal discourse around a child's autonomy is easily manipulated and framed. It further exposes the susceptibility of children's sexual autonomy to the structural moral values associated with patriarchal gender relations and age. By shaping the contours of consent, <i>law draws a line</i>—delineating punishable acts from consensual sexual activity. While the legal reforms aimed at stricter regulations surrounding child sexual abuse, including raising the age of consent, are narrowing the space for recognizing adolescents' sexual autonomy, this article contends that reforming age consent laws must strike a delicate balance between preventing potential harms and avoiding undue interference with adolescents' sexual autonomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 6","pages":"2052-2070"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12877","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141119015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study","authors":"Julie-Mary Carmel, Sian Chapman, Peter Wright","doi":"10.1111/chso.12866","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12866","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Disability awareness is an issue that can inform societal understanding of marginalised groups. Contemporary literature continues to show the importance of inclusion in society and the impact inclusion has on people with disabilities and society more broadly. The importance of disability awareness is important in the context of the daily challenges faced such as discriminatory practices, stigma, stereotyping and exclusion and manifested in areas such as access to buildings, educational opportunities, and visibility in the media. Given the importance of disability awareness and the significant influence of media, especially on children today, this research investigated the inclusion of disability as one element of ‘awareness’ in one ‘made-for-children’ (2–5 years old) television programme. Drawing on a social model of disability, three key concepts of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity were used to explore the way that disability is portrayed for early learners. Analysis of 265 episodes (2015–2021) revealed that inclusion of disability appeared in fewer than 15% of episodes and was not representative of the community broadly speaking. This lack of representation exposed the limited potential that the media currently has as an educative function for preschool children <i>in</i> disability awareness and understanding of disability as part of contemporary society. Including more people with disabilities in made-for-preschool children's programmes is one way to both build awareness and progressively ameliorate this position.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 6","pages":"2036-2051"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12866","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140969873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical perspectives on research with children: reflexivity, methodology, and researcher identity By Sarah Richards, Sarah Coombs, Bristol University Press. 2023. pp. 192. ISBN: 978–1–5292-1677-6 (hardcover)","authors":"Leonardo Veliz","doi":"10.1111/chso.12864","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1877-1879"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140670988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between self and community: Children's personhood in a Globalized South Korea, By Junehui Ahn (Ed.), Newark, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 2023. pp. 222. £134.00 (hb). ISBN: 9780198852681","authors":"Junjie Li","doi":"10.1111/chso.12863","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1875-1877"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140583851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Being part of a space made up of people of colour, led by people of colour’: Young people navigating institutional whiteness in the cultural sector","authors":"Sadia Habib, Hawwa Alam, Maya Chowdhury, Rowan Hasan, Samihah Mudabbir","doi":"10.1111/chso.12836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12836","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2020, after George Floyd's murder and with the mobilisation of Black Lives Matter activism, many UK institutions announced social media pledges to tackle racism. The cultural sector promised honest conversations about race, racism and whiteness and offered hope for social justice. However, not long after claims of imminent change on the part of cultural organisations, it went quiet. Conversations about race, racism and whiteness, once again, were not a priority. Rightly, young activists question the performative nature of cultural institutions expressing anti-racist commitment and social justice values. Drawing upon the experiences of museum education, engagement and activism, the key question addressed in this paper by the author and members of the Our Shared Cultural Heritage Young Collective is: How do young people understand and experience the processes of engaging in education and activism in what they perceive to be overwhelmingly white middle-class cultural institutions? The authors argue that museums can be useful, relevant and interesting to young people if museum staff actively seek to learn from them through participatory action research. The authors share some highlights, challenges and complexities of our ‘youth-led’ work in the heritage sector, in the hope that museums and galleries, as well as other arts and cultural organisations, might learn and benefit from our experiences and knowledge of young people's activism in the heritage sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 3","pages":"945-961"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Izela Tahsini, Kathleen Manion, Laura H. V. Wright
{"title":"Uncovering social and gender norms that perpetuate school-related gender-based violence in Albania","authors":"Izela Tahsini, Kathleen Manion, Laura H. V. Wright","doi":"10.1111/chso.12861","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12861","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Violence among children has been considered one of the fundamental issues inhibiting optimal child well-being and learning. Violence is widespread in Albania. Understanding the factors that affect it and the complex nature of violence itself requires looking at root social, cultural and economic factors and the normative influences on these factors. This study aimed to explore social and gender norms impacting school-related gender-based violence, and children's potential role in challenging these social norms. This article focuses on findings from research in two schools in Albania, particularly on what children and adult-supporters shared about their understanding of social and gender norms that perpetuate violence, and their recommendations for policy and practice to address them.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 6","pages":"2003-2021"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140583746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood","authors":"Elizabeth Yarrow","doi":"10.1111/chso.12860","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12860","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gender diversity in childhood has become an issue of significant public debate in Britain. Growing concerns have amassed around the exposure of children and adolescents to new forms of gendered knowledge and expression, arousing discourses of childhood ‘vulnerability’ and ‘innocence’. These ideas draw on a specific framework for understanding ‘childhood’, in which children are depicted as passive, dependent and in need of protection, as they follow a universal, predetermined developmental pathway. Among other effects, this has resulted in a dearth of empirical research that has explored gender diversity as a developmental experience in childhood. This article draws on evidence from interviews with 40 gender and sex variant young people and 30 caregivers of transgender children. Participants' accounts illustrate the deep psychic investment in embodied gender incongruence that young people may manifest from the earliest years of childhood. They highlight the profound distress sometimes experienced by children denied external recognition of their internal (gendered) selves and required to conform to extraneous expectations informed by essentialist understandings of biological sex. Far from ‘innocent’ of gender (difference), children can be deeply and actively involved in creating and adopting gendered subject positions, sometimes generating unanticipated forms of diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 6","pages":"1984-2002"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12860","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140583852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eilidh Lamb, Neil Young, Vicki Ledgerwood, Chloe Berry, Leah Young
{"title":"A gender-based violence prevention programme—Young people's participation and activism in Scotland","authors":"Eilidh Lamb, Neil Young, Vicki Ledgerwood, Chloe Berry, Leah Young","doi":"10.1111/chso.12853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12853","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents a critical reflection from young people and youth workers on their participation in a gender-based violence prevention programme implemented in Scotland. Authors have focussed their lens on the role of young people's peer education and activism, including using arts-based methods to reflect on their work. The programme aimed to address the pervasive issue of gender-based violence and empower young individuals to become agents of change within their communities. The implications of this study contribute to the broader discourse on gender-based violence prevention and the role of young people in effecting social change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 3","pages":"926-944"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future of children's care By Christian Jerr, Robin Sen (Eds.), Bristol University Press. ISBN 978-1-4473-6828-7 (paperback)","authors":"Ellisiah Jocson","doi":"10.1111/chso.12858","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 5","pages":"1873-1874"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration","authors":"Azher Hameed Qamar","doi":"10.1111/chso.12857","DOIUrl":"10.1111/chso.12857","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Framed within the social constructionist interpretive phenomenological approach, I explore the perceptions and social experiences of two Arab girls living in Sweden. A phenomenological interpretive analysis was used to examine the unstructured in-depth interviews. The research focuses on the migrants' perceptions of social integration framed as a ‘melting pot’ to a ‘salad bowl’ integration. The ‘melting pot’ is a metaphor for assimilationists' perspectives on integration which means melting down into a new identity while losing oneself. This was expressed as submission, drawing a line of ‘differences’ between ‘successful’ and ‘unsuccessful’ integration. Contrary, ‘salad bowl’ is a metaphor for social integration as a process of creating and nurturing social connections that lead to co-existence with trust, reciprocity, and a sense of belonging. I present a two-fold argument connecting social resilience and social integration as the foundation of migrants' social experiences in the host country: (1) the visibility of migrants as ‘beings’ rather than ‘becomings’ should guide the pragmatic approach to integration; and (2) the social and political space for migrants should include their voices and engagement in right-based policies, as well as a shared sense of responsibilities, connectedness, and co-existence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47660,"journal":{"name":"Children & Society","volume":"38 6","pages":"1965-1983"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/chso.12857","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}