Configuring consent: Emerging technologies, unauthorised sexual images and sexual assault

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-90

  Powell, Anastasia ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Sexual violence; Technology; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956240238     PISSN: 00048658     EISSN: 18379273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/acri.43.1.76     Document Type: Article

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