Roger J.R. Levesque
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190460792
- eISBN:
- 9780190460815
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190460792.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Forensic Psychology
The right to privacy figures prominently in popular discourse and law. Its popularity, however, is not matched by the respect it receives. A close look at empirical understandings of privacy, how it ...
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The right to privacy figures prominently in popular discourse and law. Its popularity, however, is not matched by the respect it receives. A close look at empirical understandings of privacy, how it shapes development, and how privacy itself can be shaped, provides important lessons for addressing the critical juncture facing privacy rights and privacy itself. To increase respect for privacy and foster privacy’s effective outcomes, society must capitalize on opportunities to shape adolescents’ use of privacy. Yet, as currently developed, the legal system has difficulty recognizing adolescents’ privacy rights and supporting systems that would shape adolescents’ skills and abilities in ways that would foster respect for privacy. As a result, the system fails to address the needs of adolescents and society. The upshot is that a developmental understanding of privacy essentially asks that the legal system take an entirely different approach to adolescents’ privacy. This book provides the foundation for understanding privacy rights and how they relate to adolescents. It then explores the place of privacy in adolescent development and builds on that understanding to chart ways to better address adolescents’ privacy needs and rights as well as society’s broader privacy interests. It argues that privacy actually is an inherently social phenomenon, one that can and must be shaped more effectively.Less
The right to privacy figures prominently in popular discourse and law. Its popularity, however, is not matched by the respect it receives. A close look at empirical understandings of privacy, how it shapes development, and how privacy itself can be shaped, provides important lessons for addressing the critical juncture facing privacy rights and privacy itself. To increase respect for privacy and foster privacy’s effective outcomes, society must capitalize on opportunities to shape adolescents’ use of privacy. Yet, as currently developed, the legal system has difficulty recognizing adolescents’ privacy rights and supporting systems that would shape adolescents’ skills and abilities in ways that would foster respect for privacy. As a result, the system fails to address the needs of adolescents and society. The upshot is that a developmental understanding of privacy essentially asks that the legal system take an entirely different approach to adolescents’ privacy. This book provides the foundation for understanding privacy rights and how they relate to adolescents. It then explores the place of privacy in adolescent development and builds on that understanding to chart ways to better address adolescents’ privacy needs and rights as well as society’s broader privacy interests. It argues that privacy actually is an inherently social phenomenon, one that can and must be shaped more effectively.
Emily Buss
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199366989
- eISBN:
- 9780190625238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199366989.003.0014
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Social Policy
In the United States, Juvenile Court jurisdiction targets young people at serious risk of anti-social development to whom society is committed to offering another chance, with some assistance, to ...
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In the United States, Juvenile Court jurisdiction targets young people at serious risk of anti-social development to whom society is committed to offering another chance, with some assistance, to develop in a more pro-social direction. This chance is offered, however, through a dispositional process that undermines the law’s pro-social goals. An extensive body of literature in developmental and social psychology suggests that a dramatic transformation of that process that brought the young people to the center of the decision-making could materially enhance the developmental value of that process for young people. It could offer them meaningful opportunities to develop their decision-making skills and foster an understanding of self as a part of, rather than outside of, the community of law enforcement. This chapter brings together current law and practice with the social science literature to argue for the undertaking of a process experiment in Juvenile Court.Less
In the United States, Juvenile Court jurisdiction targets young people at serious risk of anti-social development to whom society is committed to offering another chance, with some assistance, to develop in a more pro-social direction. This chance is offered, however, through a dispositional process that undermines the law’s pro-social goals. An extensive body of literature in developmental and social psychology suggests that a dramatic transformation of that process that brought the young people to the center of the decision-making could materially enhance the developmental value of that process for young people. It could offer them meaningful opportunities to develop their decision-making skills and foster an understanding of self as a part of, rather than outside of, the community of law enforcement. This chapter brings together current law and practice with the social science literature to argue for the undertaking of a process experiment in Juvenile Court.
Roger J. R. Levesque
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190460792
- eISBN:
- 9780190460815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190460792.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Forensic Psychology
This chapter introduces the urgent need to develop a coherent approach to respecting privacy’s appropriate place in our lives by taking a developmental-science view of the right to privacy. It ...
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This chapter introduces the urgent need to develop a coherent approach to respecting privacy’s appropriate place in our lives by taking a developmental-science view of the right to privacy. It reveals the book’s argument that the nature of the right to privacy has undergone rapid transformation, and that transformation requires a different approach to protecting what we have come to understand as privacy. It requires what society typically has done to address all other social issues—looked toward youth. This means understanding the place of privacy in adolescence and how society can shape the experience of privacy and its outcomes. It means understanding how the adolescent period triggers the manner in which people will use, expect, and respect privacy. It means thinking through how the legal system could be harnessed to shape adolescents’ experiences critical to protecting privacy in ways that would enhance individual well-being and societal functioning.Less
This chapter introduces the urgent need to develop a coherent approach to respecting privacy’s appropriate place in our lives by taking a developmental-science view of the right to privacy. It reveals the book’s argument that the nature of the right to privacy has undergone rapid transformation, and that transformation requires a different approach to protecting what we have come to understand as privacy. It requires what society typically has done to address all other social issues—looked toward youth. This means understanding the place of privacy in adolescence and how society can shape the experience of privacy and its outcomes. It means understanding how the adolescent period triggers the manner in which people will use, expect, and respect privacy. It means thinking through how the legal system could be harnessed to shape adolescents’ experiences critical to protecting privacy in ways that would enhance individual well-being and societal functioning.
