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"Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000 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. The book highlights the continued entanglement of historical descriptions of the development of juvenile justice systems in other parts of the world with narratives of Western colonialism and the persistence of notions of a cultural divide between East and West. It also stresses the need to combine theoretical insights from traditional comparative history with new global history approaches. In doing so, the case studies examined in the volume reveal the significant limitations to the influence of Western ideas about juvenile delinquency in other parts of the world, as well as the important degree to which Western understandings of delinquency were also constructed in a transnational context"--
List of contents
1. Introduction: Constructing Juvenile Delinquency in a Global Context; Heather Ellis PART I: COLONIAL CONTEXTS 2. Adolescent Empire: Moral Dangers for Boys in Britain and India, c. 1880-1914; Stephanie Olsen 3. The Road to the Reformatory: (Mis-)communication in the Colonial Courts between Judges, Juveniles, and Parents in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942; Amrit Dev Kaur Khalsa PART II: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION 4. It Takes a Village: Budapest Jewry and the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency; Howard Lupovitch 5. Latino/a Youth Gangs in Spain in Global Perspective; Miroslava Chávez-García PART III: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND WAR: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PERSPECTIVES 6. Bad Boys? Juvenile Delinquency during the First World War in Wilhelmine Germany; Sarah Bornhorst 7. Empire's Little Helpers: Juvenile Delinquents and the State in East Asia, 1880-1945; Barak Kushner PART IV: COLD WAR CONTEXTS 8. A Soviet Moral Panic?: Youth, Delinquency and the State, 1953-1961; Gleb Tsipursky 9. Danger and Progress: White Middle-Class Juvenile Delinquency and Motherly Anxiety in the Post-War United States, 1945-1965; Nina Mackert PART V: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND THE POST-WAR STATE 10. Becoming Delinquent in the Post-War Welfare State: England and Wales, 1945-1965; Kate Bradley 11. Mapping the Turkish Republican Notion of Childhood and Juvenile Delinquency: The Story of Children's Courts in Turkey, 1940-1990; Nazan Çiçek
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Sarah Bornhorst, Museum of the Berlin Wall, Germany Kate Bradley, University of Kent, UK Miroslava Chávez-García, University of California at Davis, USA Nazan Çiçek, University of Ankara, Turkey Amrit Dev Kaur Khalsa, Leiden Global, the Netherlands Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge, UK Howard Lupovitch, Wayne State University, USA Nina Mackert, University of Erfurt, Germany Stephanie Olsen, Max Planck Center for the History of Emotions, Germany Gleb Tsipursky, The Ohio State University, USA
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“The contributors, who are primarily historians, explore how local and regional populations often ‘adopted, adapted, or rejected’ Western ideas about juvenile delinquency according to local traditions and circumstances. … Both social scientists and education scholars will find interest in case studies of delinquency prevention initiatives launched outside formal justice systems. … In sum, this volume makes a valuable contribution at a time when scholars and policymakers grapple with making sense of youth crises in an increasingly interconnected world.” (William S. Bush, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January, 2017)
“The essays themselves present a wide variety of approaches, and each of them offers new perspectives on the ways in which societies and cultures have addressed the question of juvenile delinquency. … Taken as a wholethe essays in this volume add both new information and important theoretical perspectives to the study of the history of juvenile delinquency and childhood.” (Joseph M. Hawes, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 9 (1), Winter, 2016)
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"The contributors, who are primarily historians, explore how local and regional populations often 'adopted, adapted, or rejected' Western ideas about juvenile delinquency according to local traditions and circumstances. ... Both social scientists and education scholars will find interest in case studies of delinquency prevention initiatives launched outside formal justice systems. ... In sum, this volume makes a valuable contribution at a time when scholars and policymakers grapple with making sense of youth crises in an increasingly interconnected world." (William S. Bush, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January, 2017)
"The essays themselves present a wide variety of approaches, and each of them offers new perspectives on the ways in which societies and cultures have addressed the question of juvenile delinquency. ... Taken as a wholethe essays in this volume add both new information and important theoretical perspectives to the study of the history of juvenile delinquency and childhood." (Joseph M. Hawes, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 9 (1), Winter, 2016)
