Introduction -- Delinquency in the crisis years, 1942-1948 -- Constructing the delinquent boy and the sexually deviant girl -- Controlling juvenile delinquents in the crisis years -- Americanization and youth cultures in the miracle years, 1949-1962 -- Constructing the halbstarke and the teenager -- Controlling youth and society in the miracle years -- Political activism in the protest years, 1962-1973 -- Constructing the student and the Gammler -- Controlling protestor in the protest years -- Conclusion
Summary
In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this fascinating study, constructs like the rowdy young boy and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the diffuse fears of adult society, while allowing authorities ranging from local institutions to the U.S. military government to strengthen forms of social control
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Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2016)
