Juvenile delinquency and the limits of Western influence, 1850-2000 /

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Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:	x, 280 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave studies in the history of childhood Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.
Subject:	Juvenile delinquency -- History -- 19th century. Juvenile delinquency -- History -- 20th century. Juvenile delinquency. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10081905

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Other authors / contributors:	Ellis, Heather, editor.
ISBN:	9781137349514 (hardback) 1137349514 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Constructing juvenile delinquency in a global context / Heather Ellis
I. Colonial contexts
Adolescent empire: moral dangers for boys in Britain and India, c. 1880-1914 / Stephanie Olsen
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
II: Juvenile delinquency and transnational migration
It takes a village: Budapest Jewry and the problem of juvenile delinquency / Howard Lupovitch
Latino/a youth gangs in Spain in global perspective / Miroslava Chávez-García
III: Juvenile delinquency and war: early twentieth-century perspectives
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
IV: Cold War contexts
A soviet moral panic?: Youth, delinquency and the state, 1953-1961 / Gleb Tsipursky
Danger and progress: white middle-class juvenile delinquency and motherly anxiety in the post-war US / Nina Mackert
V: Juvenile delinquency and the post-war states
Becoming delinquent in the post-war welfare state: England and Wales, 1945-1965 / Kate Bradley
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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