I can't to I Kant: the sexual harassment of working adolescents, competing theories, and ethical dilemmas
Abstract
This Article offers a unique theoretical foundation for prohibiting the sexual harassment of working adolescents by adult co-workers. After analyzing the socio-legal treatment of sexuality, the Article reviews classic philosophical perspectives on juvenile capacity and new psychosocial evidence concerning adolescent development. It weaves this information with Kantian ethics to synthesize a customized legal theory to address the sexual harassment of minors and adolescent "consent" to sex with an adult co-worker. With more than seven million adolescents in the American workforce and new sexual harassment cases involving teens filtering through the courts, this Article is both timely and important. (Author Pre-publication Summary)
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Keywords
child abuse, teens, coercion, legal theory, ethics, policy, review
Citation
Drobac, J. A. (2006). I can't to I Kant: the sexual harassment of working adolescents, competing theories, and ethical dilemmas. Albany Law Review, 70, 675-708.