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Author Cox, Pamela, author

Title Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 / editors, Shore, Heather
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Revivals
Summary "This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing body of work on the history of British and European juvenile delinquency. It is unique in that it analyzes definitions of and responses to, disorderly youth across time (from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries) and across space (covering developments across Western Europe). This comparative approach allows it to show how certain themes dominated European discourses of delinquency across this period, not least panics about urban culture, poor parenting, dangerous pleasures, family breakdown, national fitness and future social stability. It also shows how these various threats were countered by recurring strategies, most notably by repeated attempts to deter delinquency, to divide responsibility between the state, civil society and the family, and to find a "proper" balance between moral reform and physical punishment, between care and control."--Provided by publisher
Subject Juvenile delinquency -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
Juvenile delinquency -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Juvenile delinquency
Europe
Great Britain
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Shore, Heather, author
ISBN 9781315183497
1315183498