Carolyn Cocca is assistant professor of Politics, Economics, and Society at SUNY College at Old Westbury. Her book Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States is forthcoming from State University of New York Press. Her essays have appeared in Polity, Michigan Feminist Studies, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Encyclopedia of Rape.  Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court, Encyclopedia of New York State, and Encyclopedia of American Law.