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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.
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.
This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept
of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law
enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored
here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
An examination of the circumstances of youthful delinquency in
London in the early nineteenth century, and the legislative
measures put in place to contain and control offenders. A
well-researched and well-argued monograph contributing
significantly to our understanding of juvenile delinquency. CRIME,
HISTOIRE ET SOCIETESA fine book... based on a wide range of
well-marshalled primary evidence that emphasizes the voice of young
offenders - highly readable. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEWThe early
nineteenth century witnessed an increasing concern about the
incidence of juvenile crime. Youthful delinquency was not new, but
it was notuntil then that the foundations were laid for a juvenile
justice system which would serve, with amendments, for the next
century and more. Separate trial, separate penal provision, and an
emphasis on reform rather than punishmentwere all enshrined in the
new legislation.Heather Shore explores the processes and context of
these legislative strategies, in which consideration of juvenile
crime in London - with its close streets and alleys and conspicuous
juxtaposition of poverty and wealth - played a major part,
influencing elite perceptions of offending by children and young
people. At the heart of this study is a critical consideration of
the lives of young offenders. Dr Shore examines the process of
offending, from the initial foray into crime, through apprehension
and passage through the judicial system, to punishment and
experience of penal and reform measures: prison, houses of
correction, transportation and colonial emigration. HEATHER SHORE
is Lecturer in Social and Cultural History, University of
Portsmouth.
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