Children's Rights and Criminal Justice in the Digital Age

Wendy O'Brien

ISBN 10: 3031689321 / ISBN 13: 9783031689321

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the data economy,childhood is a lucrative commodity.The digital technologies that offer incredible possibilities for children's enrichment and empowerment also open avenues for their exploitation,denigration, criminalisation, and control. Coming to grips with this paradigm of technological benefits and harms requires adeepened understanding about how children's rightsare engaged within a technocratic system that distributes costs and benefits unequally.In the context of the altered flows of data and power in the digital age, Wendy O'Brien argues for a resurgence in the commitment to equal human dignity. Challenging narrowconceptualisations of online risks to children,the book identifies the need to confront the techno-social status quo that accepts harms against children as inevitable.This book will be of interest to legal scholars, criminologists, policy makers and technologists with an interest in upholding children's rights inthe age of AI.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children's Rights and Criminal Justice in the Digital Age
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031689321
• ISBN 13: 9783031689321
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 12D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 286 grams

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Synopsis

In the data economy, childhood is a lucrative commodity. 

The digital technologies that offer incredible possibilities for children’s enrichment and empowerment also open avenues for their exploitation, denigration, criminalisation, and control. Coming to grips with this paradigm of technological benefits and harms requires a deepened understanding about how children's rights are engaged within a technocratic system that distributes costs and benefits unequally.

In the context of the altered flows of data and power in the digital age, Wendy O’Brien argues for a resurgence in the commitment to equal human dignity. Challenging narrow conceptualisations of online risks to children, the book identifies the need to confront the techno-social status quo that accepts harms against children as inevitable.

This book will be of interest to legal scholars, criminologists, policy makers and technologists with an interest in upholding children’s rights in the age of AI.

About the Author

Wendy O’Brien is Adjunct Associate Professor with Deakin University, Australia. Her academic research focuses on technology and human rights. Wendy currently works with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.