Ages of anxiety : historical and transnational perspectives on juvenile justice /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, 2018.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Youth, crime, and justice series
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12647609
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Other authors / contributors:Bush, William S., 1967- editor.
Tanenhaus, David Spinoza, editor.
ISBN:9781479865802
147986580X
9781479833214
1479833215
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Ages of Anxiety presents six case studies of juvenile justice policy in the twentieth century from around the world, adding context to the urgent and international conversation about youth, crime, and justice. By focusing on magistrates, social workers, probation and police officers, and youth themselves, editors William S. Bush and David S. Tanenhaus highlight the role of ordinary people as meaningful and consequential historical actors. After providing an international perspective on the social history of ideas about how children are different from adults, the contributors explain why those differences should matter for the administration of justice. They examine how reformers used the idea of modernization to build and legitimize juvenile justice systems in Europe and Mexico, and present histories of policing and punishing youth crime. Ages of Anxiety introduces a new theoretical model for interpreting historical research to demonstrate the usefulness of social histories of children and youth for policy analysis and decision-making in the twenty-first century. Shedding new light on the substantive aims of the juvenile court, the book is a historically informed perspective on the critical topic of youth, crime, and justice. --Jacket flap.
Other form:Print version: Ages of anxiety. New York : New York University Press, 2018 9781479833214
Review by Choice Review

Ages of Anxiety is the third book of a series developed to examine the policies of the juvenile justice system, with an emphasis on law enforcement and on the juvenile court. This well-integrated book of readings focuses on the development of juvenile justice policy from an international social history perspective; chapters address development in countries such as Turkey, Mexico, Canada, France, and Zanzibar using narrative social history. The editors' concluding chapter applies their theoretical model addressing moral panics and juvenile justice policy evolution to the material presented by the authors. The writing style for most of the chapters is complex but within the grasp of undergraduate students at most universities. The book is well referenced and adequately indexed. Most of the contributors are recognized as well qualified to speak on the material that they present. This book is recommended for libraries serving departments of history, criminology, criminal justice, psychology, social work, or sociology that seek to offer expanded holdings. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Robert T. Sigler, emeritus, University of Alabama

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