Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850–2000

Abstract

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 Chavez-Garcia 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 Cicek