Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000 [electronic resource] /
Ellis, H.editor.
This volume brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore the complex ways in which historical understandings of childhood and juvenile delinquency have been constructed in a global context.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Constructing Juvenile Delinquency in a Global Context; Part I: Colonial Contexts; 2 Adolescent Empire: Moral Dangers for Boys in Britain and India, c.1880-1914; 3 The Road to the Reformatory: (Mis-)communication in the Colonial Courts between Judges, Juveniles and Parents in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942; Part II: Juvenile Delinquency and Transnational Migration; 4 It Takes a Village: Budapest Jewry and the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency; 5 Latina/o Youths Gangs in Spain in Global Perspective
Part III: Juvenile Delinquency and War: Early Twentieth-Century Perspectives6 Bad Boys? Juvenile Delinquency during the First World War in Wilhelmine Germany; 7 Empire's Little Helpers: Juvenile Delinquents and the State in East Asia, 1880-1945; Part IV: Cold War Contexts; 8 A Soviet Moral Panic? Youth, Delinquency and the State, 1953-1961; 9 Danger and Progress: White Middle-Class Juvenile Delinquency and Motherly Anxiety in the Post-War US; Part V: Juvenile Delinquency and the Post-War State; 10 Becoming Delinquent in the Post-War Welfare State: England and Wales, 1945-1965
11 Mapping the Turkish Republican Notion of Childhood and Juvenile Delinquency: The Story of Children's Courtsin Turkey, 1940-1990Index
Includes index.
This volume brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore the complex ways in which historical understandings of childhood and juvenile delinquency have been constructed in a global context.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
World history.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
History, Modern.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.