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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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1 Introduction: Constructing Juvenile Delinquency in a Global Context
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Juvenile Delinquency and Transnational Migration
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Juvenile Delinquency and War: Early Twentieth-Century Perspectives
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Juvenile Delinquency and the Post-War State
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Reviews
“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)
'This is a major contribution to a wave of new research exploring the phenomena of juvenile delinquency and juvenile social control in long-neglected historical and geopolitical contexts, providing global perspective in a field that has been focused on locales in the West. The well-conceived anthology productively unsettles this insular Western gaze through studies centering on East Asia, India, the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Hungary, to name a few examples but does far more than provide illustrative accounts from an assortment of non-western national contexts. Rather, in their sustained critical reflection on the East-West distinction itself, all ofthe assembled authors challenge the logic of this binary, showing how demographic, cultural, and institutional currents actually circulate both western and eastern impulses within specific historical and community contexts. Their collective focus on general themes of colonialism, migration, and war provides a helpful unifying frame for these diverse case studies, ensuring their similar engagement with local, national, and transnational dynamics of global exchange. The anthology not only succeeds in escaping the western gaze, and unsettling the East-West divide, but situating the historical construction and control of juvenile delinquency in a larger world system.
These are fascinating historical studies in their own right, and they collectively offer both an array of specific insights into what seemed a largely settled history of juvenile delinquency and youth justice, and a general call for more global perspective. As such, they invite a global turn in the great tradition of critical revisionist historical research in juvenile justice, while also challenging contemporary research to take stock of this living world system, where ideas and practices related to juvenile delinquency and juvenile social control circulate still today.' - Geoff Ward, University of California Irvine, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Juvenile Delinquency and the Limits of Western Influence, 1850-2000
Authors: Heather Ellis
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349521
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34951-4Published: 13 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46792-1Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34952-1Published: 13 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 280
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Cultural History, Modern History