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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 hav...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
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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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 280 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781137349514 (hardback) : 1137349514 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HV9065 |
| CLC: | C913.5-09 |
| Call Number: | C913.5-09/J97 |
| 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. |