EAN: 9783319662442

WORLD HISTORIES OF CRIME CULTURE AND VIOLENCE ...

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  this comprehensive 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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