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

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Constructing Juvenile Delinquency in a Global Context....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Adolescent Empire: Moral Dangers for Boys in Britain and India, c.1880–;1914....Pages 19-41
The Road to the Reformatory: (Mis-)communication in the Colonial Courts between Judges, Juveniles and Parents in the Netherlands Indies, 1900–;1942....Pages 42-68
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
It Takes a Village: Budapest Jewry and the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency....Pages 69-92
Latina/o Youths Gangs in Spain in Global Perspective....Pages 93-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Bad Boys? Juvenile Delinquency during the First World War in Wilhelmine Germany....Pages 121-144
Empire’s Little Helpers: Juvenile Delinquents and the State in East Asia, 1880–;1945....Pages 145-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
A Soviet Moral Panic? Youth, Delinquency and the State, 1953–;1961....Pages 173-198
Danger and Progress: White Middle-Class Juvenile Delinquency and Motherly Anxiety in the Post-War US....Pages 199-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Becoming Delinquent in the Post-War Welfare State: England and Wales, 1945–;1965....Pages 227-247
Mapping the Turkish Republican Notion of Childhood and Juvenile Delinquency: The Story of Children’s Courts in Turkey 1940–;1990....Pages 248-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-280