Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Roots and Development of Juvenile Justice: An International Overview

Chapter 3 The Origins of Informal Juvenile Court Practices and of the Juvenile Reformatory in England, 1815–1855

Chapter 4 From Punishment to Reform: Boys in Gaol and Reform Institutions, Montreal, 1853–1921

Chapter 5 “Endangered” Children and the Montreal Ladies’ Benevolent Society Industrial School, 1883–1921

Chapter 6 Between Great Expectations and Hard Times: The First Decade of the Geneva Children’s Penal Court, 1914–1925

Chapter 7 The Practice of the Juvenile Judge in the Netherlands: The Family Supervision Order as a Response to the Sexual Misbehaviour of Minors, 1922–1940

Chapter 8 A ‘Wayward’ or ‘Incorrigible’ Youth? Juvenile Crime and Correctional Education in Post-war Germany, 1945–1953

Chapter 10 Girls’ Journeys to the Juvenile Court, Antwerp, 1912–1933

Chapter 11 Juvenile Delinquency in Wartime and Peacetime: The Activity of the Belgian Juvenile Courts, 1912–1950

Chapter 12 The Price of Virtue: Socio-Judicial Regulation of Juvenile Sexuality in France During the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 13 Children and Their Families in the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents Court, 1912–1950: Actors or Spectators of Their Own Fate?

Chapter 14 Conclusion: Towards a Transnational History of Youth in Justice Systems