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

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. Latina/o Youths Gangs in Spain in Global Perspective
Miroslava Chávez-Garcîa

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 US
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 Çiçek

Keywords: Social Sciences, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Cultural History, Modern History