Children's Rights and Criminal Justice in the Digital Age

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.