Children's Rights and Criminal Justice in the Digital Age

<p>In the data economy,&nbsp;childhood is a lucrative commodity.&nbsp;<br> <br> The digital technologies that offer incredible possibilities for children’s enrichment and empowerment also open avenues for their exploitation,&nbsp;denigration, criminalisation, and control. Coming to grips with this paradigm of technological benefits and harms requires a&nbsp;deepened understanding about how children's rights&nbsp;are engaged within a technocratic system that distributes costs and benefits unequally.<br> <br> 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&nbsp;conceptualisations of online risks to children,&nbsp;the book identifies the need to confront the techno-social status quo that accepts harms against children as inevitable.<br> <br> This book will be of interest to legal scholars, criminologists, policy makers and technologists with an interest in upholding children’s rights in&nbsp;the age of AI.</p>