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The Globalization of Childhood - The International Diffusion of Norms and Law against the Child Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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The Globalization of Childhood - The International Diffusion of Norms and Law against the Child Death Penalty (Hardcover)
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How does an idea that forms in the minds of a few activists in one
part of the world become a global norm that nearly all states obey?
How do human rights ideas spread? In this book, Robyn Linde tracks
the diffusion of a single human rights norm: the abolition of the
death penalty for child offenders under the age of 18. The norm
against the penalty diffused internationally through
law-specifically, criminal law addressing child offenders, usually
those convicted of murder or rape. Through detailed case studies
and a qualitative, comparative approach to national law and
practice, Linde argues that children played an important-though
little known-role in the process of state consolidation and the
building of international order. This occured through the promotion
of children as international rights holders and was the outcome of
almost two centuries of activism. Through an innovative synthesis
of prevailing theories of power and socialization, Linde shows that
the growth of state control over children was part of a larger
political process by which the liberal state (both paternal and
democratic) became the only model of acceptable and legitimate
statehood and through which newly minted international institutions
would find purpose. The book offers insight into the origins,
spread, and adoption of human rights norms and law by elucidating
the roles and contributions of principled actors and norm
entrepreneurs at different stages of diffusion, and by identifying
a previously unexplored pattern of change whereby resistant states
were brought into compliance with the now global norm against the
child death penalty. From the institutions and legacy of
colonialism to the development and promotion of the global child-a
collection of related, still changing norms of child welfare and
protection-Linde demonstrates how a specifically Western conception
of childhood and ideas about children shaped the current
international system.
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