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WORK TITLE: Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers
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Children: Michal McDowell and Maggie Dooley (stepdaughter).
EDUCATION:Attended the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University, B.A., 1981, M.A., 1987, J.D., 1987, J.S.D., 2000.
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Writer and educator. Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA, instructor; clerk for Judge Barefoot Sanders, Dallas, TX; founder of a law practice, Santa Cruz, CA; Stanford University, CA, lecturer, 1997-2000; Indiana University, Indianapolis, instructor, 2001—, R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law; Cambridge University, England, visiting fellow; Fulbright Specialist, 2015—.
AWARDS:Trustees’ Teaching Award, 2005, John S. Grimes Fellowship, 2006, 2009, Dean’s Fellowship, 2005-06, and Sylvia E. Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award, 2010, all Indiana University.Children: Michal McDowell and Maggie Dooley (stepdaughter).
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Contributor of articles to publications, including Indiana Health Law Review, New Criminal Law Review, Journal of Law and Social Justice, and the Journal of Law and Policy.
SIDELIGHTS
Jennifer Ann Drobac is a writer and serves as the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. She holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, a law degree, and a J.S.D., all from Stanford University. Before going to law school, she taught at the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, CA. After earning her law degree, Drobac served as a clerk for the Texas Judge Barefoot Sanders. Later, she founded her own law practice in Santa Cruz, CA. From 1997 to 2000, Drobac taught at her alma mater, Stanford University. She joined Indiana University in 2001. In 2015, Drobac became a Fulbright Specialist. She has also been named a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. Drobac has written articles that have appeared in publications, including Indiana Health Law Review, New Criminal Law Review, Journal of Law and Social Justice, and the Journal of Law and Policy. She collaborated with Deborah L. Rhode to prepare the 2002 book, Sex-Based Harassment: Workplace Policies for the Legal Profession.
Sexual Harassment Law
Drobac is the author of the 2005 volume, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Theory. In this book, she examines the ways in which sexual harassment law has evolved since the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act, which included Title VII, a provision that expressly made discrimination by employers based on sex illegal.
Drobac goes on to discuss Title VIII and Title IX, which address discrimination in housing and in schools, respectively. The second part of the book focuses on how sexual harassment law has been implemented to defend those who have been wronged based on the aforementioned civil rights laws. Drobac discusses high-profile cases, such as those of Bill Clinton and Clarence Thomas.
Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers
In 2016, Drobac released Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law. The book finds her discussing topics, including types of exploitation, teenage neurological development, and interpretation of laws. She also includes case studies.
Reviews of Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers were favorable. A writer on the Ruth Lilly Law Blog suggested: “With a bulk of research dedicated to exploring sexual exploitation of children and adults, Professor Drobac’s book stands out by providing a unique spotlight on an overlooked demographic: teenagers.” “For those who are interested in the current laws protecting teenagers … Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers is an essential read,” asserted a contributor to the Harvard Law Review. M.M. Feeley, reviewer in Choice, commented: “This book could usefully be in the library of every high school counselor and profitably read by parents and others.”
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Choice, October, 2016, M.M. Feeley, review of Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law, p. 279.
Harvard Law Review, January, 2017, review of Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers, p. 1075.
ONLINE
Cambridge University, Department of Neuroscience Website, http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/ (August 23, 2017), author profile.
Indiana University, McKinney School of Law Website, https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/ (August 23, 2017), author faculty profile.
Jennifer Ann Drobac Website, https://jdrobac.wordpress.com/ (August 23, 2017).
Ruth Lilly Law Library Blog, https://rlllblog.com/ (October 18, 2016), article about author and review of Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers.*
Dr Jennifer Drobac
Jennifer Drobac
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Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience
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As a U.S. law professor, I examine the neuroscience of decision making, particularly as part of legal consent. My research challenges the legal default of unquestioned human capacity for consent. It posits that legal capacity for consent is not an “on/off” switch. It questions whether capacity—our rough filter for the ability to consent—flips on at some arbitrary time, such as “the age of consent,” and off again with early onset dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
Recent studies in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and sociology, suggest that rational, adult actors may not always function rationally. Factors such as financial difficulties, aging, brain deterioration, grief, and illness stress decision-making processes. The science of human decision making should inform the law’s reliance on consent. By highlighting that most negotiating parties, in a given moment or context, may possess less than legally presumed capacity to consent, I hope to emphasize the need for legal reform.
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consent
decision making
law
neuroscience
psychology
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acute stress
addiction
Alzheimer's disease
cognitive impairment
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OCD
PTSD
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analysis of scientific reports
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legal reasoning
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Oliver Goodenough Web: http://www.vermontlaw.edu/directo...
Tracy Gunter Web: https://psychiatry.medicine.iu.edu/faculty...
Leslie Hulvershorn Web: http://psychiatry.medicine.iu.edu/faculty...
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Drobac JA (2016), “Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law” Book (Univ. of Chicago Press)
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2015
Drobac JA, Goodenough OR (2015), “Exposing the Myth of Consent: Strictures from Neuroscience, Economics, and Relational Contracting” Ind. Health L. Rev. 12: 471-531
2014
Drobac JA, Hulvershorn LA (2014), “The Neurobiology of Decision-Making in High Risk Youth & The Law of Consent to Sex” New Crim. L. Rev 17: 502-551
2013
Drobac JA (2013), “Wake Up and Smell the Starbucks Coffee: How Doe v. Starbucks Confirms the End of the “Age of Consent” in California and Perhaps Beyond” B.C. J.L. & Soc. Just. 13: 1-43
2011
Drobac JA (2011), “A Bee Line in the Wrong Direction: Science, Teenagers, and the Sting to "The Age of Consent"” J.L. & Pol’y 20: 63-116
2006
Drobac JA (2006), ““Developing Capacity”: Adolescent “Consent” at the Workplace, at Law, and in the Sciences of the Mind” U.C. Davis J. Juvenile L. & Pol’y 10: 1-68
About Jennifer
I began my journey in the San Francisco Bay area. As student at The College Preparatory School (CPS) in Oakland, I took classes at UC Berkeley and then attended Stanford University. After earning my B.A., I worked for a couple of years at Castilleja School in the History and Math departments before attending law school, again at Stanford. A trip around the world after taking the California Bar introduced me to more distant lands than I had seen during school days.
I returned to the U.S. to clerk for Judge Barefoot Sanders in Dallas, Texas where I gave birth to Michal McDowell– the best first born daughter one can imagine. When she was two, we moved to Santa Cruz, California where I opened my own law practice. After I earned my doctoral degree (in law) at Stanford, I hit the road again and settled here in Indiana where I still teach at the IU McKinney School of Law. Michal left my direct care to attend Stanford and later Harvard Medical School. Just as Michal was leaving, I inherited Maggie Dooley, my bonus daughter, when Maggie was fifteen. Maggie soon launched herself into the world after graduating from Earlham College.
Relatively footloose and free, I explore the world again literally and figuratively as a Fulbright Specialist (starting in India) and tenured professor. As part of this continuing adventure I started the Musings on this site, a travel log of adventures in midlife! The rest is yet to be written…..
Jennifer A. Drobac
R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 339
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225
Phone: (317) 278-4777
Fax: (317) 278-7563
E-Mail: jdrobac@iu.edu
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Education
B.A., 1981, M.A., 1987, Stanford University
J.D., 1987, J.S.D., 2000, Stanford Law School
Courses
Contracts & Sales, Family Law, Juvenile Law, Sexual Harassment Law, Bioethics: AIDS Law, Professional Responsibility
Bio
» Hot Topics: Professor Jennifer Drobac commented on the case for stories on WRTV (by Todd Connor, February 5, 2016), as well as the Indiana Business Journal (“Feds aren’t saying if Park Tudor, attorney could face charges” by Hayleigh Colombo, February 5, 2016)
Read what Professor Drobac had to say to the Indy Star about RFRA
Jennifer Drobac joined the law school faculty in the fall of 2001. From 1992 to 2001, she practiced law in California, focusing on employment law issues and litigation. From 1997 to 2000, she served as a lecturer at Stanford Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Barefoot Sanders, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Her scholarly work has been published in a variety of law reviews and journals. In 2005, she finished her first textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Theory. A new edition of that text is expected in 2016. Professor Drobac has also completed a book concerning adolescent neurological and psychosocial development and the law, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law, for University of Chicago Press (forthcoming 2015).
Professor Drobac became a Fulbright Specialist in 2015. She received the Indiana University 2010 Sylvia E. Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award. She also received the 2005 Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award. She was named a John S. Grimes Fellow in 2006 and 2009 and a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in 2005-2006.
Publications
(SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=114434)
Books and Chapters
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF TEENAGERS: ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, DISCRIMINATION, AND CONSENT LAW (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2015)—book which explores why the scientific facts concerning adolescent neurological and psychosocial development are incongruent with sexual harassment law, designed to protect our teenagers from sexual predators at school, at work, and at play.
*Faith-based Employment Discrimination and the Law in RELIGION AND THE STATE [draft title] (Boris Bittker, Scott Idelman, and Frank Ravitch, eds., under contract for publication with Cambridge University Press in 2015)—chapter which reviews employment antidiscrimination case and statutory law as it pertains to faith-based employment discrimination in a treatise concerning law, religion and the state.
*Consent, Teenagers, and (un)Civil(ized) Consequences [draft title], in CHILDREN, SEX AND THE LAW [draft title](Ellen Marrus, ed., NYU Press, under contract for publication in 2015)—chapter that highlights the inconsistent legal treatment of adolescent consent, to recommend law reform based on the science of juvenile development and socio-legal public policy.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAW: History, Cases, and Theory (Carolina Academic Press, 2005). New edition expected in 2016.
ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, SEX-BASED HARASSMENT: Best Practices For the Legal Profession, Prepared for the Commission by Deborah L. Rhode and Jennifer A. Drobac (December 2002).
Law Review and Journal Articles
"Religion and Employment Anti-Discrimination Law: Past, Present, and Post Hosanna-Tabor," 69 NYU ANN. SURV. AM. L.-- (co-authored with Jill L. Wesley).
"Exposing the Myth of Consent: Strictures from Neuroscience, Economics, and Relational Contracting," --IND. HEALTH L. REV.-- (co-authored with Oliver R. Goodenough).
* "The Neurobiology of Decision-Making in High Risk Youth & The Law of Consent to Sex," 17 NEW CRIM. L. REV. 502 (2014) (coauthored with Prof. Leslie Hulvershorn, M.D.)(peer reviewed).
"Wake Up and Smell the Starbucks Coffee: How Doe v. Starbucks Confirms the End of the 'Age of Consent' in California and Perhaps Beyond," 33 B.C. J.L. & SOC. JUST. 1 (2013)(lead article).
A Bee Line in the Wrong Direction: Science, Teenagers, and the Sting to "the Age of Consent" 20 J. LAW & POLICY 63 (2012).
Jazzing Up Family Law, 42 INDIANA L. REV. 533 (2009).
A Uniform Domestic Partnership Act: Marrying Business Partnership And Family Law, 41 GEORGIA L. REV. 349 (lead article, coauthored with Antony Page)(2007).
I Can’t To I Kant: The Sexual Harassment of Working Adolescents, Competing Theories, and Ethical Dilemmas, 70 Albany L. Rev.675 (2007).
“Developing Capacity”: Adolescent “Consent” at the Workplace, at Law, and in the Sciences of the Mind, 10 U.C. DAVIS J. JUVENILE L. & POL’Y 1 (2006)(lead article).
Sex and the Workplace: "Consenting" Adolescents and a Conflict of Laws, 79 WASH. L. REV. 471 (2004).
The Oncale Opinion: A Pansexual Response, 30 MCGEORGE L. REV. 1269 (1999).
Pansexuality and the Law, 5 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 297 (1999).
Note, For the Sake of the Children: Court Consideration of Religion in Child Custody Cases, 50 STAN. L. REV. 1609 (1998).
The "Perfect" Jointure: Its Formulation After the Statute of Uses, 19 CAMBRIAN L. REV. 26 (1988).
Book Reviews
Fifty Shades of SEX IN THE OFFICE, WOMEN & SOC. MOVEMENTS IN THE U.S., 1600-2000 (MARCH 2013) (reviewing JULIE BEREBITSKY, SEX AND THE OFFICE: A HISTORY OF GENDER, POWER, AND DESIRE (2012)).
Work in Progress
"Legal Catalysis" [draft title]—article that explores how legal catalysts might foster advantageous interactions and minimize legal disabilities.
Presentations
"Legal Innovations: Law and the Noble Eight-fold Path," Association of American Law Schools and the Section on Socio-Economics, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2015).
Expert interviewed by Karen Foshay, "LAUSD argued middle schooler can consent to sex with teacher," 89.3 KPCC (interview begins at 2:28) (November 13, 2014).
Expert interviewed by Larry Mantle, "KPCC investigation reveals questionable tactics LAUSD used to defend rape lawsuit," 89.3 KPCC AIRTALK (interview begins at 4:19) (November 13, 2014).
Expert interviewed by Arun Rath, "Criminal Law Says Minors Can’t Consent — But Some Civil Courts Disagree," NPR (National Public Radio) ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (interview begins at 3:44) (November 16, 2014).
Panelist, "Legally Complicated: A Review of Legal Issues Unresolved by Marriage Equality," Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana (October 22, 2014).
Convener and Panelist, "Anita Hill: her story and the development of sexual harassment law," McKinney Special Program, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana (Sept. 2, 2014).
"Hobby Lobby: The Dissent," McKinney Constitution Day Program, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana (September 17, 2014).
"Innovation, Leadership, and Education: What’s Love 2.0 Got To Do With IT?," The Tobias Leadership Conference, Indiana University Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence, Indianapolis, Indiana (April 25, 2014) (discussing “the 3 Ms: meditation, mindfulness, and mentoring”).
"The Myth of Consent: The Neuroscience of 'Developing' and 'Declining' Capacity and the Law," at “Neuroscience and the Law: Injury, Capacity, and Illness,” IU McKinney School of Law and School of Medicine Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana (March 28, 2014).
"Exposing the Myth of Consent: Strictures from Neuroscience, Economics, and Relational Contracting," Association of American Law Schools, Annual Meeting, New York, New York (January 5, 2014).
"Worldly But Not Yet Wise," University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon (November 7, 2013).
"Legal Catalysis," Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley Conference (May 21, 2013).
"Innovation and Education: What's Love 2.0 Got To Do With IT?," Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley Conference, Squaw Valley, California (May 23, 2013) (discussing “the 3 Ms: meditation, mindfulness, and mentoring”).
"Exposing the Myth of Consent: Strictures from Neuroscience, Economics, and Relational Contracting," Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law ("SEAL") Scholarship Conference (April 6, 2013).
"Exposing the Myth of Consent: Strictures from Neuroscience, Economics, and Relational Contracting," Society of Socio-Economists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 3, 2013).
"Abandoning Teenage Consent for Adolescent Assent: Harmonizing Developmental Sciences and the Law," 2012 Law Conference, Athens, Greece (July 16-19, 2012); Law & Society Association, 2012 International Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (June 7, 2012); University of Sydney Law School, Faculty Seminar Series (June 21, 2012); University of Queensland, TC Beirne School of Law, Research Seminar Series (June 15, 2012).
Student Speech in the Wake of Morse v. Frederick, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina (July 25, 2011).
Abandoning Teenage “Consent” for Legal Assent: Harmonizing Developmental Sciences and the Law, Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley Conference (May 24, 2011).
The End of the Age of Consent, The Adolescent in Society Conference, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York (March 18, 2011).
Consent, Teenagers, and (un)Civil(ized) Consequences, International Society of Family Law North American Regional Conference, Kansas City, Missouri (June 4, 2010).
Children as Limited Partners: Filial Domestic Partnerships for All Children, Law and Society Association 2010 Conference, Chicago, Illinois (May 27, 2010).
Adolescent Development and the Legal Capacity to Consent, Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center (October 23, 2009).
Adolescent Brain Development and Its Legal Implications, University of Pennsylvania Neuroscience Boot Camp (August 12, 2009).
"Minding" Civil Law's Regulation of Adolescents, Gruter Institute For Law and Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley Conference (May 21, 2009).
“Minding” Civil Law’s Regulation of Adolescents, 2009 SEAL (Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law) Scholarship Conference, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee (April 16-18, 2009).
Profiled IUI Faculty: research concerning the sexual harassment of working teenagers.
Profiled Expert, NOW ON PBS, interviewed on camera for story concerning the sexual harassment of working teenagers.
Presenter: Children, Sex and the Law, AALS 2009 Annual Meeting, San Diego, California (January 9, 2009).
Organizing Host, Inaugural Midwest Family Law Conference, “Jazzing Up Family Law,” Indiana University School of Law- Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (June 13, 2008).
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QUOTED: "With a bulk of research dedicated to exploring sexual exploitation of children and adults, Professor Drobac’s book stands out by providing a unique spotlight on an overlooked demographic: teenagers."
A Good Choice! Rave Review for Professor Drobac’s Newest Book
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer A. Drobac, R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law here at IU McKinney School of Law, on the fantastic review of her newest book recently published in the October 2016 issue of Choice, a publication from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Choice is an important review resource upon which many librarians, faculty, and decision makers rely on for scholarly research, as well as to decide what books to include in a library. Professor Drobac’s book, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination & Consent Law (2016), was featured in the current issue’s Choice review by law professor M. M. Feeley at the University of California, Berkeley, who listed it as an “essential [book for] graduate students through professionals.” Evidenced in the Choice review of Professor Drobac’s book is great interdisciplinary support from the fields of neuroscience and psychology, which underlie appropriate legal responses to sexual exploitation of teenagers, and serves “to explain why teenagers are so vulnerable to sexual predators” (Feeley).
With a bulk of research dedicated to exploring sexual exploitation of children and adults, Professor Drobac’s book stands out by providing a unique spotlight on an overlooked demographic: teenagers. Her book also acts as a resourceful guide for addressing harassment and abuse directed at maturing youth, a demographic that still has insufficient attention from criminal and civil law. Professor Drobac deftly pointed out in her book that the current state of the law is falling short of protecting teenagers from sexual exploitation, with statutes varying widely from state to state. In Appendix 2 of her book, she included a highly valuable “Summary of State Juvenile Sex Crime Statutes” in which she alphabetically listed each state and what each has on the books regarding teenage sex abuse (243). As a survivor of teenage sexual abuse, I’m thankful that this is a topic that one of our faculty members has explored and shared with the world, and I hope we join her in advocating for consistency as well as legal reform. Professor Drobac’s book, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination & Consent Law, is available for check-out through IUCAT.
QUOTED: "For those who are interested in the current laws protecting teenagers ... Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers is an essential read."
Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law
Harvard Law Review. 130.3 (Jan. 2017): p1075.
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SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF TEENAGERS: ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, DISCRIMINATION, AND CONSENT LAW. By Jennifer Ann Drobac. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. 2016. P. 361. $50.00. While concepts of sexual abuse and harassment between adults are part of the mainstream discourse, many adolescents also face such abuse and harassment. In Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers, Professor Jennifer Ann Drobac explores the surprisingly common phenomenon of adolescents being sexually abused by the adults in their lives. Through six specific cases, Drobac examines why adolescents are especially susceptible to adult harassers, as well as how the particular developmental stage of teenagers affects their response to this sexual abuse. Drobac goes on to discuss the deficiencies in the laws designed to protect adolescents from this kind of abuse. In the process, she reviews "cutting-edge science of adolescent development" (p. 4) to explore "adolescent neurobiological, psychosocial, and sexual maturation," showing that teenagers are not simply "mini-adults" (p. 5) --an insight key to understanding the shortcomings that manifest when laws that protect against sexual abuse generally are applied to teenagers. Lastly, Drobac proposes a new model to protect teenagers: "legal assent," which would allow adolescents to engage in sexual conduct with adults, but also protect them anytime they revoke their consent (p. 6). For those who are interested in the current laws protecting teenagers from sexual abuse, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers is an essential read.
QUOTED: "This book could usefully be in the library of every high school counselor and profitably read by parents and others."
Drobac, Jennifer Ann. Sexual exploitation of teenagers: adolescent development, discrimination, and consent law
M.M. Feeley
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 54.2 (Oct. 2016): p279.
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Drobac, Jennifer Ann. Sexual exploitation of teenagers: adolescent development, discrimination, and consent law. Chicago, 2016. 361 p index afp ISBN 9780226301013 cloth, $50.00; ISBN 9780226301150 ebook, contact publisher for price
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Teenagers may be worldly but are not experienced in the ways of the world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in dealing with sexuality, especially the challenges posed by the sexual exploitation of teenagers. This book is something of a guide for those who advise these teenagers and help steer them through problems they may encounter or, better yet, help reduce such encounters. The first and perhaps biggest problem is that the law is muddled and does not deal satisfactorily with the sexual exploitation of teenagers. A second problem is that well-meaning advisers are often confused. The book is a response to these problems. It is concrete--the author reviews findings from neuroscience and psychology to explain why teenagers are so vulnerable to sexual predators. She presents case studies illustrating various forms of exploitation and then merges the scientific findings with the case studies to provide thoughtful, useful advice on how to reconstruct the law and how to advise this vulnerable population. This book could usefully be in the library of every high school counselor and profitably read by parents and others entrusted with the care of kids. Summing Up: **** Essential. Graduate students through professionals.--M. M. Feeley, University of California, Berkeley
Feeley, M.M.