Michael Hirst
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199245390
- eISBN:
- 9780191715013
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245390.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
In the modern world, it is increasingly difficult for criminal law to be applied on a narrow territorial basis. This is especially apparent in the context of international fraud, drug smuggling, ...
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In the modern world, it is increasingly difficult for criminal law to be applied on a narrow territorial basis. This is especially apparent in the context of international fraud, drug smuggling, Internet crime, and international terrorism. Against that background, this important new work examines some fundamental, but hitherto neglected, issues of domestic criminal law. Where, and to whom, does that law apply? When, in particular, can national law properly concern itself with conduct that takes place wholly or partly abroad? Should it primarily be concerned with delinquent conduct, or with the consequences of that conduct, which may take effect in a different part of the world? On what basis can a person who is not a UK national be regarded as offending against the law if he is not within the territories governed by that law? What is the position under international law? And how are the precise boundaries (especially the adjacent maritime boundaries) of a nation's criminal law defined? This book examines the territorial and extraterritorial application of the criminal law, identifying many defects, lacunae, and historical accidents; and considers possible ways in which some at least of the problems that beset these areas of law might be alleviated.Less
In the modern world, it is increasingly difficult for criminal law to be applied on a narrow territorial basis. This is especially apparent in the context of international fraud, drug smuggling, Internet crime, and international terrorism. Against that background, this important new work examines some fundamental, but hitherto neglected, issues of domestic criminal law. Where, and to whom, does that law apply? When, in particular, can national law properly concern itself with conduct that takes place wholly or partly abroad? Should it primarily be concerned with delinquent conduct, or with the consequences of that conduct, which may take effect in a different part of the world? On what basis can a person who is not a UK national be regarded as offending against the law if he is not within the territories governed by that law? What is the position under international law? And how are the precise boundaries (especially the adjacent maritime boundaries) of a nation's criminal law defined? This book examines the territorial and extraterritorial application of the criminal law, identifying many defects, lacunae, and historical accidents; and considers possible ways in which some at least of the problems that beset these areas of law might be alleviated.
Stephen A. Toth
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501740183
- eISBN:
- 9781501740190
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501740183.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant ...
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The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now this book takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation's carceral system. The book dissects Mettray's social anatomy, exploring inmates' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and the book situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France. It demonstrates that the colony was an ill-conceived project marked by internal contradictions. Its social order was one of subjection and subversion, as officials struggled for order and inmates struggled for autonomy. The book exposes the nature of the relationships between, and among, prisoners and administrators. It explores the daily grind of existence: living conditions, discipline, labor, sex, and violence. Thus, the book gives voice to the incarcerated, not simply to the incarcerators, whose ideas and agendas tend to dominate the historical record. The book is, above all else, a deeply personal illumination of life inside France's most venerated carceral institution.Less
The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now this book takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation's carceral system. The book dissects Mettray's social anatomy, exploring inmates' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and the book situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France. It demonstrates that the colony was an ill-conceived project marked by internal contradictions. Its social order was one of subjection and subversion, as officials struggled for order and inmates struggled for autonomy. The book exposes the nature of the relationships between, and among, prisoners and administrators. It explores the daily grind of existence: living conditions, discipline, labor, sex, and violence. Thus, the book gives voice to the incarcerated, not simply to the incarcerators, whose ideas and agendas tend to dominate the historical record. The book is, above all else, a deeply personal illumination of life inside France's most venerated carceral institution.
Marc Le Blanc
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199917938
- eISBN:
- 9780199950430
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917938.003.0016
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter takes a fresh look at developmental criminology and examines the extent to which deviant behavior in general conforms to findings from developmental criminology. Drawing on his lifelong ...
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This chapter takes a fresh look at developmental criminology and examines the extent to which deviant behavior in general conforms to findings from developmental criminology. Drawing on his lifelong research on a population of young people and a sample of known delinquents, it is argued that the age-crime curve applies to many other deviant behaviors as well and that qualitative and quantitative changes known from developmental criminology also apply to various forms of deviant behavior. The same is true for the classification of individuals according to their developmental trajectories. It is further argued that problems in self-regulation are germane to both crime and deviant behaviors, and that qualitative and quantitative changes in self-regulation underlie the manifestations of all deviant behaviors. Finally, the chapter makes a case that most explanatory models are more complex than ones that are currently in use and that the next generation of statistical tests will need to advance to more complex levels.Less
This chapter takes a fresh look at developmental criminology and examines the extent to which deviant behavior in general conforms to findings from developmental criminology. Drawing on his lifelong research on a population of young people and a sample of known delinquents, it is argued that the age-crime curve applies to many other deviant behaviors as well and that qualitative and quantitative changes known from developmental criminology also apply to various forms of deviant behavior. The same is true for the classification of individuals according to their developmental trajectories. It is further argued that problems in self-regulation are germane to both crime and deviant behaviors, and that qualitative and quantitative changes in self-regulation underlie the manifestations of all deviant behaviors. Finally, the chapter makes a case that most explanatory models are more complex than ones that are currently in use and that the next generation of statistical tests will need to advance to more complex levels.
Elizabeth Harvey
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204145
- eISBN:
- 9780191676123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204145.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Social History
The problem of the deprived and delinquent adolescent was by no means a discovery of the Weimar period. Under the Republic, a more favourable context arose for reforming the youth welfare and ...
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The problem of the deprived and delinquent adolescent was by no means a discovery of the Weimar period. Under the Republic, a more favourable context arose for reforming the youth welfare and juvenile justice system in line with these principles. Increasing child neglect and juvenile delinquency were, in the eyes of contemporaries, a sign of the social dislocation which the war and its aftermath had produced. The sense of social crisis assisted the youth welfare lobby in its efforts. In Imperial Germany, the youth welfare and juvenile justice lobby had been dominated by middle-class social reforming groups of professional experts and committed campaigners. Increasing numbers of young men and women from the youth movement trained as professional social workers, focusing particularly on the field of youth welfare.Less
The problem of the deprived and delinquent adolescent was by no means a discovery of the Weimar period. Under the Republic, a more favourable context arose for reforming the youth welfare and juvenile justice system in line with these principles. Increasing child neglect and juvenile delinquency were, in the eyes of contemporaries, a sign of the social dislocation which the war and its aftermath had produced. The sense of social crisis assisted the youth welfare lobby in its efforts. In Imperial Germany, the youth welfare and juvenile justice lobby had been dominated by middle-class social reforming groups of professional experts and committed campaigners. Increasing numbers of young men and women from the youth movement trained as professional social workers, focusing particularly on the field of youth welfare.
Arthur Burns
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207849
- eISBN:
- 9780191677823
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207849.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, History of Religion
This chapter discusses the campaigns for the extension of the episcopate, the creation of diocesan assemblies, and improved clergy discipline. It focuses ...
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This chapter discusses the campaigns for the extension of the episcopate, the creation of diocesan assemblies, and improved clergy discipline. It focuses on the aspects of clergy discipline relating to moral misdemeanors or failure to comply with the theological or liturgical norms of the Church. These moral misdemeanors include drunkenness, sexual indiscretion, and conduct unbecoming a clergyman.Less
This chapter discusses the campaigns for the extension of the episcopate, the creation of diocesan assemblies, and improved clergy discipline. It focuses on the aspects of clergy discipline relating to moral misdemeanors or failure to comply with the theological or liturgical norms of the Church. These moral misdemeanors include drunkenness, sexual indiscretion, and conduct unbecoming a clergyman.
Georgia Zara
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199917938
- eISBN:
- 9780199950430
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917938.003.0011
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter focuses on the much neglected criminal career aspect of adult-onset offenders. It stresses that risk factors do not always need to have an immediate and direct effect, that some early ...
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This chapter focuses on the much neglected criminal career aspect of adult-onset offenders. It stresses that risk factors do not always need to have an immediate and direct effect, that some early risk factors have a long-term impact, that many factors play a protective role in childhood and adulthood, but that this protective effect may cease in adulthood, that psychological insulation or resilience toward antisocial and criminogenic factors may not last long, and that delinquency abstention is not necessarily a sign of good adjustment in adolescence. Using data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, the chapter presents important findings and formulates an agenda for future work on adult-onset offending.Less
This chapter focuses on the much neglected criminal career aspect of adult-onset offenders. It stresses that risk factors do not always need to have an immediate and direct effect, that some early risk factors have a long-term impact, that many factors play a protective role in childhood and adulthood, but that this protective effect may cease in adulthood, that psychological insulation or resilience toward antisocial and criminogenic factors may not last long, and that delinquency abstention is not necessarily a sign of good adjustment in adolescence. Using data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, the chapter presents important findings and formulates an agenda for future work on adult-onset offending.
Alex R. Piquero
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199917938
- eISBN:
- 9780199950430
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917938.003.0014
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter uses David Farrington’s Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development as an example of a study that has generated hundreds of papers and several books relevant to criminal career research. ...
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This chapter uses David Farrington’s Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development as an example of a study that has generated hundreds of papers and several books relevant to criminal career research. It contrasts these findings with a discussion of contentious and unresolved substantive, theoretical, and methodological issues in criminal career research and provides pointers to areas in which future research is likely to pay off.Less
This chapter uses David Farrington’s Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development as an example of a study that has generated hundreds of papers and several books relevant to criminal career research. It contrasts these findings with a discussion of contentious and unresolved substantive, theoretical, and methodological issues in criminal career research and provides pointers to areas in which future research is likely to pay off.
Kent F. Schull
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748641734
- eISBN:
- 9781474400886
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641734.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Chapter Six investigates Ottoman conceptions of childhood, particularly regarding incarcerated minors. During the Second Constitutional Period, the CUP went to great lengths to protect children from ...
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Chapter Six investigates Ottoman conceptions of childhood, particularly regarding incarcerated minors. During the Second Constitutional Period, the CUP went to great lengths to protect children from serving prison sentences with adult inmates by rationalizing the legal definition of childhood and by centralizing power into the hands of the Imperial Ottoman Penal Code and the state-run criminal courts. The Ottoman Prison Administration was committed to removing children from prisons and separating criminally culpable minors from adult convicts. This was done through pardons, creating special reformatories for child criminals, and by introducing a gradated system of punishment according to the age of the child, thus introducing the notion of adolescences into the Middle East. By assuming greater responsibility for the protection of juvenile delinquents, the CUP increased the state’s intervention into the private sphere and simultaneously reshaped the public sphere.Less
Chapter Six investigates Ottoman conceptions of childhood, particularly regarding incarcerated minors. During the Second Constitutional Period, the CUP went to great lengths to protect children from serving prison sentences with adult inmates by rationalizing the legal definition of childhood and by centralizing power into the hands of the Imperial Ottoman Penal Code and the state-run criminal courts. The Ottoman Prison Administration was committed to removing children from prisons and separating criminally culpable minors from adult convicts. This was done through pardons, creating special reformatories for child criminals, and by introducing a gradated system of punishment according to the age of the child, thus introducing the notion of adolescences into the Middle East. By assuming greater responsibility for the protection of juvenile delinquents, the CUP increased the state’s intervention into the private sphere and simultaneously reshaped the public sphere.
Edward Rohs and Judith Estrine
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823240227
- eISBN:
- 9780823240265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823240227.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter discusses how Ed Rohs grew into adolescence at St. Vincent's. For the first time in his life, he attended a coeducational public school—John Jay High School—which was a distance from his ...
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This chapter discusses how Ed Rohs grew into adolescence at St. Vincent's. For the first time in his life, he attended a coeducational public school—John Jay High School—which was a distance from his institutional home. It describes the challenges he experienced coming up against an alien high school culture, its racism and ignorance of his life in St. Vincent's, and the difficult balancing act between school and institution. The chapter discusses truancy (“playing hooky”) and the shame St. Vincent's boys felt at having to give the school their institutional home address, which automatically labelled them “juvenile delinquents”. Ed's experiences with other St. Vincent boys in a singing group, and his first dance, are described, as is the summer after his Junior year of high school, when he prepares to leave the Catholic home nest by finding summer employment and living on his own.Less
This chapter discusses how Ed Rohs grew into adolescence at St. Vincent's. For the first time in his life, he attended a coeducational public school—John Jay High School—which was a distance from his institutional home. It describes the challenges he experienced coming up against an alien high school culture, its racism and ignorance of his life in St. Vincent's, and the difficult balancing act between school and institution. The chapter discusses truancy (“playing hooky”) and the shame St. Vincent's boys felt at having to give the school their institutional home address, which automatically labelled them “juvenile delinquents”. Ed's experiences with other St. Vincent boys in a singing group, and his first dance, are described, as is the summer after his Junior year of high school, when he prepares to leave the Catholic home nest by finding summer employment and living on his own.
David R. Ambaras
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520245792
- eISBN:
- 9780520932203
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520245792.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter considers the question of young people's proper relation to work and play, which helped shape the approaches to the urban middle classes, first examining the discourse on protecting ...
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This chapter considers the question of young people's proper relation to work and play, which helped shape the approaches to the urban middle classes, first examining the discourse on protecting young workers, which changed along with Japan's educational system during and after the First World War. It also describes the street toughs and professional delinquents, and introduces the concept of the modern girl or moga.Less
This chapter considers the question of young people's proper relation to work and play, which helped shape the approaches to the urban middle classes, first examining the discourse on protecting young workers, which changed along with Japan's educational system during and after the First World War. It also describes the street toughs and professional delinquents, and introduces the concept of the modern girl or moga.
JOHN W. RENFREW
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195082302
- eISBN:
- 9780199846894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195082302.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter examines aggressive behaviour in minors. It explores the specific nature of youth aggression and describes some of the aggressive behaviours of delinquent youths as reported by trained ...
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This chapter examines aggressive behaviour in minors. It explores the specific nature of youth aggression and describes some of the aggressive behaviours of delinquent youths as reported by trained observers. It highlights some programs based on behavioural principles that show promise for preventing and reducing juvenile aggression. These programs focus on increasing appropriate communication and positive social interaction while controlling aggressive outbursts.Less
This chapter examines aggressive behaviour in minors. It explores the specific nature of youth aggression and describes some of the aggressive behaviours of delinquent youths as reported by trained observers. It highlights some programs based on behavioural principles that show promise for preventing and reducing juvenile aggression. These programs focus on increasing appropriate communication and positive social interaction while controlling aggressive outbursts.
Tamara Myers
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236764
- eISBN:
- 9781846312816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236764.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter concentrates on ‘delinquent’ teenage girls in inter-war Montreal. A major target of the modern juvenile justice movement – the sex delinquent – could be determined daily in the nation's ...
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This chapter concentrates on ‘delinquent’ teenage girls in inter-war Montreal. A major target of the modern juvenile justice movement – the sex delinquent – could be determined daily in the nation's new juvenile courts. In Montreal Juvenile Delinquents' Court, girls' misbehaviour was largely interpreted in sexual terms. In addition, most girls that were accused of desertion had some sexual experience, but their desertions were often about much more than having sex. Then, the experiences of girls while running away, which involved both adventure and survival, are explored. In general, the data showed that deserting daughters left their homes and ventured onto the streets of Montreal, where they found pleasure and danger, were rarely alone, and where the social geography of Montreal aided them in their journey.Less
This chapter concentrates on ‘delinquent’ teenage girls in inter-war Montreal. A major target of the modern juvenile justice movement – the sex delinquent – could be determined daily in the nation's new juvenile courts. In Montreal Juvenile Delinquents' Court, girls' misbehaviour was largely interpreted in sexual terms. In addition, most girls that were accused of desertion had some sexual experience, but their desertions were often about much more than having sex. Then, the experiences of girls while running away, which involved both adventure and survival, are explored. In general, the data showed that deserting daughters left their homes and ventured onto the streets of Montreal, where they found pleasure and danger, were rarely alone, and where the social geography of Montreal aided them in their journey.
Andrew Davidson and Alexander Levin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199998166
- eISBN:
- 9780199363698
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199998166.003.0013
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
The chapter discusses several modeling approaches aimed at predicting prepayments and default rates given economic scenario, loan, borrower and collateral characteristics. Among those methods are ...
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The chapter discusses several modeling approaches aimed at predicting prepayments and default rates given economic scenario, loan, borrower and collateral characteristics. Among those methods are predicting lifetime defaults and losses, roll rates, hazard rates, and dynamic transition rates. A dynamic transition model advocated by the authors combines attractive features of other models and enables initialization of the model with known loan statuses. Loans can generally be current, delinquent, severely delinquent, or terminated with transitions among those states modeled as S-curves of various drivers (the chapter provides examples and explanations). If a loan terminates, it may cause losses also modeled off economic drivers, both observed and unobserved.Less
The chapter discusses several modeling approaches aimed at predicting prepayments and default rates given economic scenario, loan, borrower and collateral characteristics. Among those methods are predicting lifetime defaults and losses, roll rates, hazard rates, and dynamic transition rates. A dynamic transition model advocated by the authors combines attractive features of other models and enables initialization of the model with known loan statuses. Loans can generally be current, delinquent, severely delinquent, or terminated with transitions among those states modeled as S-curves of various drivers (the chapter provides examples and explanations). If a loan terminates, it may cause losses also modeled off economic drivers, both observed and unobserved.
Dick Hobbs
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199565955
- eISBN:
- 9780191701948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199565955.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
David Downes' Delinquent Solution was publicized in 1966 and presented a rich and rewarding picture of East London in the early 1960s. It produced a platform for scholars to understand the worlds of ...
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David Downes' Delinquent Solution was publicized in 1966 and presented a rich and rewarding picture of East London in the early 1960s. It produced a platform for scholars to understand the worlds of successive generations of British Youth. This chapter reconsiders the socio-economic changes that have taken place in the East End during the past forty years. A few of Downes' old haunts are described in a contemporary context, and the validity of the concept of dissociation that emerged from his fieldwork is interrogated along with the relevance of the subcultural canon. It specifically had a tremendous influence upon the study of British youth subcultures. In general, The Delinquent Solution was an important text in the sociology of youth culture, and in its careful unravelling of the realities of being young in the 1960s Downes succeeded in contradicting some of the crude stereotyping of working-class youth, and in its place created a complex picture of a rich culture that was both oppositional and subservient.Less
David Downes' Delinquent Solution was publicized in 1966 and presented a rich and rewarding picture of East London in the early 1960s. It produced a platform for scholars to understand the worlds of successive generations of British Youth. This chapter reconsiders the socio-economic changes that have taken place in the East End during the past forty years. A few of Downes' old haunts are described in a contemporary context, and the validity of the concept of dissociation that emerged from his fieldwork is interrogated along with the relevance of the subcultural canon. It specifically had a tremendous influence upon the study of British youth subcultures. In general, The Delinquent Solution was an important text in the sociology of youth culture, and in its careful unravelling of the realities of being young in the 1960s Downes succeeded in contradicting some of the crude stereotyping of working-class youth, and in its place created a complex picture of a rich culture that was both oppositional and subservient.
David S. Tanenhaus
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195306507
- eISBN:
- 9780199850587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306507.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter examines how it became possible to imagine a children's court, and how its supporters campaigned to translate their vision into an institutional reality. The moral crusade for justice ...
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This chapter examines how it became possible to imagine a children's court, and how its supporters campaigned to translate their vision into an institutional reality. The moral crusade for justice for the child in Illinois, spearheaded by Lucy Flower and Julia Lathrop, took more than a decade and ultimately resulted in the passage in 1899 of the world's first juvenile-court law, “an Act to Regulate the Treatment and Control of Dependent, Neglected and Delinquent Children.” This pioneering act, which had been significantly amended during the legislative process, asserted state responsibility for both dependent and delinquent children and thus merged concerns about child welfare with crime control. It served as a model law for most of the states in the union, and also for nations in Europe, South America, and Asia.Less
This chapter examines how it became possible to imagine a children's court, and how its supporters campaigned to translate their vision into an institutional reality. The moral crusade for justice for the child in Illinois, spearheaded by Lucy Flower and Julia Lathrop, took more than a decade and ultimately resulted in the passage in 1899 of the world's first juvenile-court law, “an Act to Regulate the Treatment and Control of Dependent, Neglected and Delinquent Children.” This pioneering act, which had been significantly amended during the legislative process, asserted state responsibility for both dependent and delinquent children and thus merged concerns about child welfare with crime control. It served as a model law for most of the states in the union, and also for nations in Europe, South America, and Asia.
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226307190
- eISBN:
- 9780226307237
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226307237.003.0008
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter addresses the current role of programming in the U.S. juvenile-court system. Extensive programming has a central role to play within the juvenile-court system and thus should be an ...
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This chapter addresses the current role of programming in the U.S. juvenile-court system. Extensive programming has a central role to play within the juvenile-court system and thus should be an important component in society's responses to the most serious delinquents. The attempt to provide programmatic support to the juvenile courts' high-risk offenders is a critical part of the government's approach to providing services for the young. Any decent custodial setting can accommodate programming for a wide variety of goals such as drug and alcohol prevention, remedial education, anger management, and social skills training. The research on custodial programs has demonstrated that such programs can be effective in reducing recidivism, as well as in providing higher levels of public protection and accountability.Less
This chapter addresses the current role of programming in the U.S. juvenile-court system. Extensive programming has a central role to play within the juvenile-court system and thus should be an important component in society's responses to the most serious delinquents. The attempt to provide programmatic support to the juvenile courts' high-risk offenders is a critical part of the government's approach to providing services for the young. Any decent custodial setting can accommodate programming for a wide variety of goals such as drug and alcohol prevention, remedial education, anger management, and social skills training. The research on custodial programs has demonstrated that such programs can be effective in reducing recidivism, as well as in providing higher levels of public protection and accountability.
Elisabeth Staksrud
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424396
- eISBN:
- 9781447302643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424396.003.0012
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Children's participation in the internet revolution is regularly touted as a mixture of societal progress and an invitation to predatory adults and digital criminals. The idea that children can be ...
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Children's participation in the internet revolution is regularly touted as a mixture of societal progress and an invitation to predatory adults and digital criminals. The idea that children can be active participants in a negative sense through illegal or deviant behaviour has received little attention from policy makers, awareness raisers, and researchers, although issues such as ‘digital bullying’, ‘happy slapping’, and the illegal downloading of music and movies are starting to creep into the public – and official – consciousness. This chapter focuses on children as online delinquents, actively producing online risks such as illegal or undesired online content or conduct.Less
Children's participation in the internet revolution is regularly touted as a mixture of societal progress and an invitation to predatory adults and digital criminals. The idea that children can be active participants in a negative sense through illegal or deviant behaviour has received little attention from policy makers, awareness raisers, and researchers, although issues such as ‘digital bullying’, ‘happy slapping’, and the illegal downloading of music and movies are starting to creep into the public – and official – consciousness. This chapter focuses on children as online delinquents, actively producing online risks such as illegal or undesired online content or conduct.
Nick Riddle
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325529
- eISBN:
- 9781800342330
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325529.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines Hammer and its history with science fiction. Hammer had become, by 1963, an easy studio to pin down: the broader production slate of the 1950s had been narrowed to mainly ...
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This chapter examines Hammer and its history with science fiction. Hammer had become, by 1963, an easy studio to pin down: the broader production slate of the 1950s had been narrowed to mainly produce Gothic horror and modern thriller/slasher films, with little interest in cultural 'respectability'. Since Hammer's first feature-length film, however, its slate of releases covered a multitude of subjects and genres such as mysteries, comedies, crime dramas and noirs, and science fiction. A certain amount of commentary on Joseph Losey's The Damned (1963) has identified it as an anomaly in the Hammer catalogue. There is its frequent description as a kind of hybrid, mixing the biker/delinquent movie with the science fiction genre; but Hammer had previous form in this department. The genre mix in The Damned is more ungainly than most because, rather than running concurrently throughout the film, the genres tend to interrupt each other.Less
This chapter examines Hammer and its history with science fiction. Hammer had become, by 1963, an easy studio to pin down: the broader production slate of the 1950s had been narrowed to mainly produce Gothic horror and modern thriller/slasher films, with little interest in cultural 'respectability'. Since Hammer's first feature-length film, however, its slate of releases covered a multitude of subjects and genres such as mysteries, comedies, crime dramas and noirs, and science fiction. A certain amount of commentary on Joseph Losey's The Damned (1963) has identified it as an anomaly in the Hammer catalogue. There is its frequent description as a kind of hybrid, mixing the biker/delinquent movie with the science fiction genre; but Hammer had previous form in this department. The genre mix in The Damned is more ungainly than most because, rather than running concurrently throughout the film, the genres tend to interrupt each other.
Paul Elliott
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906733742
- eISBN:
- 9781800342125
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906733742.003.0008
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores British delinquency films. The phrase ‘juvenile delinquent’ has been used to describe criminal children since the mid-nineteenth century. Although an endlessly prescient and ...
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This chapter explores British delinquency films. The phrase ‘juvenile delinquent’ has been used to describe criminal children since the mid-nineteenth century. Although an endlessly prescient and emotive area, the subject of the juvenile delinquent represents both continuity and change for British society and cinema — on the one hand offering an ever present folk devil and barometer for social mores and, on the other, lending a constantly evolving image that forever allies itself to other problems. It also offers special insight into how successive generations view themselves and their successors. The first manifestation of the juvenile delinquent in British films could be thought to be characters such as Pinkie Brown in Brighton Rock (2010) or Ted Peters in Dancing with Crime (1947). However, it would not be until the 1950s and 1960s that the British juvenile delinquent made a full appearance on film and then it would always be under the watchful eyes of a responsible adult. The chapter then considers Lewis Gilbert's Cosh Boy (1953) and Basil Dearden's Violent Playground (1958), as well as the films Scum (1979), Made in Britain (1982), and Scrubbers (1983).Less
This chapter explores British delinquency films. The phrase ‘juvenile delinquent’ has been used to describe criminal children since the mid-nineteenth century. Although an endlessly prescient and emotive area, the subject of the juvenile delinquent represents both continuity and change for British society and cinema — on the one hand offering an ever present folk devil and barometer for social mores and, on the other, lending a constantly evolving image that forever allies itself to other problems. It also offers special insight into how successive generations view themselves and their successors. The first manifestation of the juvenile delinquent in British films could be thought to be characters such as Pinkie Brown in Brighton Rock (2010) or Ted Peters in Dancing with Crime (1947). However, it would not be until the 1950s and 1960s that the British juvenile delinquent made a full appearance on film and then it would always be under the watchful eyes of a responsible adult. The chapter then considers Lewis Gilbert's Cosh Boy (1953) and Basil Dearden's Violent Playground (1958), as well as the films Scum (1979), Made in Britain (1982), and Scrubbers (1983).
LaKisha Michelle Simmons
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469622804
- eISBN:
- 9781469622828
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469622804.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines the “delinquent” girls that stayed at the House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic delinquency home for black and white girls. It looks into how the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, ...
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This chapter examines the “delinquent” girls that stayed at the House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic delinquency home for black and white girls. It looks into how the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, along with the Jim Crow municipal authority, stigmatized black girls' bodies by marking the youth in their care as “sexually delinquent”—they were accused not only of having acted immorally but also having both diseased and criminal bodies. Their experiences provide a glimpse into the world of young women who did not live up to middle-class standards of “niceness.” The records of the delinquency home help in reconstructing the intersection of race, stigma, and sexuality in Jim Crow New Orleans. By linking a girl's sexuality to criminality, the chapter describes how the girls both trespassed the boundaries of respectability and the negotiated the double bind at the same time.Less
This chapter examines the “delinquent” girls that stayed at the House of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic delinquency home for black and white girls. It looks into how the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, along with the Jim Crow municipal authority, stigmatized black girls' bodies by marking the youth in their care as “sexually delinquent”—they were accused not only of having acted immorally but also having both diseased and criminal bodies. Their experiences provide a glimpse into the world of young women who did not live up to middle-class standards of “niceness.” The records of the delinquency home help in reconstructing the intersection of race, stigma, and sexuality in Jim Crow New Orleans. By linking a girl's sexuality to criminality, the chapter describes how the girls both trespassed the boundaries of respectability and the negotiated the double bind at the same time.