Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950

Jean Trépanier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Criminology at the Université de Montréal, Canada. Having previously studied law and criminology at the London School of Economics, UK, and worked in the civil service, including as a juvenile probation officer, he has a strong background in youth justice from both an historical and a contemporary perspective.Xavier Rousseaux is Research Director at the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium, and Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. Working on the history of crime and justice, he is member of the board of Crime, History & Societies, and co-edited Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System (Springer, 2016) and Policing New Risks in Modern European History (Palgrave, 2016).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Presentation of the book; Jean Trépanier and Xavier Rousseaux.- PART 1 – An International Overview.- Chapter 2. The roots and development of juvenile justice: An international overview; Jean Trépanier.- PART 2 – Nineteenth Century Responses to Juvenile Delinquincy: Punishment, Reform and Child Protection.-Chapter 3. The origins of informal juvenile court practices and of the juvenile reformatory in England, 1815-1855; Peter King.- Chapter 4: From punishment to reform: Boys in prison and reform institutions, 1853-1923; François Fenchel, Jean Trépanier and Sylvie Ménard.- Chapter 5. “At-Risk” Children and the Montreal Ladies’ Benevolent Society Industrial School, 1883-1921;  Janice Harvey.- Part 3 – A New Institution in the Welfare Era: Juvenile Court Policies and Practice.- Chapter 6. Between great expectations and hard times: the first decade of Geneva’s juvenile court (1914-1925); Joëlle Droux and  Mariama Kaba.- Chapter 7. The role of the juvenile judge in the family supervision order in the Netherlands, 1922-1940; Ingrid van der Bij.- Chapter 8. A ‘wayward’ or ‘incorrigible’ youth? Juvenile crime and correctional education in post-war Germany, 1945-1953; David Meeres.- Chapter 9. Youth crime redefined: The practice of scientific observation and diagnosis within the framework of Belgian Child Protection (1913-1960); Jenneke Christiaens.- Part 4 – Children and Families Before the Juvenile Court.- Chapter 10. Girls' journeys to the juvenile court, Antwerp, 1912-1933; Margo De Koster.- Chapter 11. Juvenile delinquency in wartime and peacetime. The activity of the juvenile court of Namur (1912-1950); Aurore François.- Chapter 12. The price of virtue. Socio-judicial regulation of juvenile sexuality in France during the first half of the 20th Century; David Niget.- Chapter 13. Children and their families in the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents Court (1912-1950): Actors or spectators of their own fate?; Jean Trépanier.- Chapter 14. Conclusion: Towards a transnational history of youth in justice systems; Jean Trépanier and Xavier Rousseaux.- Index.