The globalization of childhood
Subtitle: the international diffusion of norms and law against the child death penalty
By: Robyn Linde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780190601379
Subjects: Children (International law); Capital punishment; Foreign influences; Juvenile corrections; Law; Law and globalization
Description: Through a qualitative, comparative study of the diffusion of a single human rights norm-the abolition of the death penalty for child offenders-this book argues that the growth of state control over children contributed to the consolidation of the state and the creation of international order.
Notes: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Minnesota), 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the globalization of childhood; title: Data and case selection; title: Principled activism as a mechanism of diffusion; title: Coercive socialization as a mechanism of diffusion; title: Globalized childhood as a mechanism of diffusion; title: Laggards in the global age of the child; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix A: documented executions of children in england in the 19th century; title: Appendix B: jurisdictions that abolished the death penalty for child offenders under the age of 18 prior to Roper v. Simmons.