Bad youth : juvenile delinquency and the politics of everyday life in modern Japan / [electronic resource]
Ambaras, David Richard,1962-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
2006.
"The first in-depth study of the political, social, and cultural history of juvenile delinquency in modern Japan. Bad Youth treat the policing of urban youth as a critical site of the development of new state structures and new forms of social power. Focusing on 1895 to 1945, the years of rapid industrialization and imperialist expansion, David Ambaras challenges widely held conceptions of a Japan that did not, until recently, experience delinquency and related youth problems."
"Bad Youth draws from official sources as well as press accounts, novels, songs, and films. Throughout, Ambaras demonstrates that juvenile protection remained contested terrain marked by complex negotiations among reformers, young people, and the adults in their lives, for whom the promises and perils of modernity could assume starkly different meanings."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p.267-291) and index.
Introduction -- Unruly youth and the early modern polity -- Assimilating the lower classes -- Civilizing "degenerate students" -- Popularizing protection -- Preparing modern workers, policing modern play -- Juvenile delinquency and the national defense state -- Epilogue: The century of juvenile protection.
"The first in-depth study of the political, social, and cultural history of juvenile delinquency in modern Japan. Bad Youth treat the policing of urban youth as a critical site of the development of new state structures and new forms of social power. Focusing on 1895 to 1945, the years of rapid industrialization and imperialist expansion, David Ambaras challenges widely held conceptions of a Japan that did not, until recently, experience delinquency and related youth problems."
"Bad Youth draws from official sources as well as press accounts, novels, songs, and films. Throughout, Ambaras demonstrates that juvenile protection remained contested terrain marked by complex negotiations among reformers, young people, and the adults in their lives, for whom the promises and perils of modernity could assume starkly different meanings."--Jacket.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Juvenile delinquency
Problem youth
Urban youth
Social control
Social change