1. "Children of the city": juvenile justice, property, and place in England and Scotland, 1945-60.
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Jackson LA and Bartie A
- Subjects
- Adolescent Behavior ethnology, Adolescent Behavior history, Adolescent Behavior physiology, Adolescent Behavior psychology, England ethnology, Family Relations ethnology, Family Relations legislation & jurisprudence, History, 20th Century, Humans, Psychology, Adolescent economics, Psychology, Adolescent education, Psychology, Adolescent history, Scotland ethnology, Social Identification, Social Responsibility, Theft economics, Theft ethnology, Theft history, Theft legislation & jurisprudence, Theft psychology, Adolescent, Family Characteristics ethnology, Family Characteristics history, Judicial Role history, Juvenile Delinquency economics, Juvenile Delinquency ethnology, Juvenile Delinquency history, Juvenile Delinquency legislation & jurisprudence, Juvenile Delinquency psychology, Social Change history, Social Problems economics, Social Problems ethnology, Social Problems history, Social Problems legislation & jurisprudence, Social Problems psychology
- Abstract
This article uses cases studies of Dundee and Manchester to explain juvenile property-offending in terms of young people's use of objects and spaces in the period 1945-60. A composite picture is assembled of objects stolen, which reflects growth of the specifically "teenage" consumer market as well as continued significance of young people's contribution to family economies. Concerns about youth, property, and space were reported in newspapers in terms of vandalism and hooliganism. "Play" and "nuisance" were overlapping and contested categories; re-education of young people in the correct use of place, space, and property was a key aim of the postwar juvenile justice system.
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- 2011
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