{"id":7440,"date":"2021-01-29T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T15:51:13","slug":"sexting-consent-young-people-regulatory-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/sexting-consent-young-people-regulatory-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexting, Consent and Young People: Regulatory Challenges &#8211; A New Policy Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sexting among young people is a form of peer-based sexual behaviour which has attracted significant social and legal attention. Data varies significantly on the prevalence of the sexual behaviour among young people. Most studies estimate between 15-40% of young people engage in sexting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with most data associated with harmful behaviours, in particular harmful sexual behaviours, the actual figure is often higher e.g. unreported cases. In the case of peer-based sexting behaviours, this may include cases where the young person does not recognise themselves as a \u2018victim.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While figures vary, it is clear that sexting among young people is a recurrent behaviour raised within social and legal policies and is impacting enough young people to cause concern among child protection and welfare professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new Policy Paper from the School of Law at Queen&#8217;s University examines some of the concerns faced by professionals when conceptualising and responding to certain sexting behaviours as either \u2018explorative\u2019 or \u2018harmful.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To view this Policy Paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2021\/01\/Sexting-Consent-and-Young-People-Regulatory-Challenges-Policy-Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please click here.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexting among young people is impacting them to such an extent that it is causing concern among child protection and welfare professionals says Dr Elizabeth Agnew.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2608,"featured_media":7444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law"],"mb":[],"acf":{"authors":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":null,"value":null,"field":{"ID":9774,"key":"field_66d0cbf58f930","label":"Authors","name":"authors","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"relationship","value":null,"menu_order":1,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"post_type":["authors"],"post_status":["publish"],"taxonomy":"","filters":["search"],"return_format":"id","min":0,"max":10,"allow_in_bindings":0,"elements":["featured_image"],"bidirectional":0,"bidirectional_target":[],"_name":"authors","_valid":1}},"description":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","field":{"ID":9776,"key":"field_66d2183027749","label":"Description","name":"description","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"wysiwyg","value":null,"menu_order":3,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"","allow_in_bindings":0,"tabs":"all","toolbar":"basic","media_upload":0,"delay":1,"_name":"description","_valid":1}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2021\/01\/Elizabeth-Agnew-Cover-Image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack_sharing_enabled","amp_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}