Overview
- Aims to reflect the lived experience of juveniles in the justice system and confinement institutions across the Western world
- Examines a range of cultural, social, political and legal experiences that have shaped responses to juvenile delinquents and deviant youths
- Offers a collection of case studies that assess the history of practices aimed at children and youth in juvenile institutions and before the courts
Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)
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This book explores the treatment of junevile offenders in modern Western history. The last few decades have witnessed major debates over youth justice policies. Juvenile and youth justice legislation has been reviewed in a number of countries. Despite the fact that new perspectives, such as restorative justice, have emerged, the debates have largely focused on issues that bring us back to the inception of juvenile justice: namely whether youth justice ought to be more akin to punitive adult criminal justice, or more sensitive to the welfare of youths. This issue has been at the core of policy choices that have given juvenile justice its orientations since the beginning of the twentieth century. It also gave shape to the evolution that paved the way for the creation of juvenile courts in the nineteenth century. Understanding those early debates is essential if we are to understand current debates, and place them into perspective.
Based on primary archival research, thiscomprehensive study begins by presenting the roots, birth and evolution of juvenile justice, from the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the twenty-first. The second part deals with nineteenth century responses to juvenile delinquency in England and Canada, while the third focuses on the welfare orientation that characterized juvenile courts in the first half of the twentieth century in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Finally, the fourth part focuses on the perspective of the youths and their families in Belgium, France and Canada.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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An International Overview
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Nineteenth Century Responses to Juvenile Delinquency: Punishment, Reform and Child Protection
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A New Institution in the Welfare Era: Juvenile Court Policies and Practices
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Children and Families Before the Juvenile Court
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jean Trépanier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Criminology at the Université de Montréal, Canada. Having previously studied law and criminology at the London School of Economics, UK, and worked in the civil service, including as a juvenile probation officer, he has a strong background in youth justice from both an historical and a contemporary perspective.
Xavier Rousseaux is Research Director at the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium, and Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. Working on the history of crime and justice, he is member of the board of Crime, History & Societies, and co-edited Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System (Springer, 2016) and Policing New Risks in Modern European History (Palgrave, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950
Book Subtitle: From Punishment to Welfare
Editors: Jean Trépanier, Xavier Rousseaux
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66245-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66244-2Published: 19 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88205-5Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66245-9Published: 05 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 433
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Modern History, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Legal History, Crime and Society