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‘Children of the city’: juvenile justice, property, and place in England and Scotland, 1945–60
Author(s) -
JACKSON LOUISE A.,
BARTIE ANGELA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.014
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1468-0289
pISSN - 0013-0117
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00543.x
Subject(s) - juvenile , newspaper , economic justice , property (philosophy) , property crime , space (punctuation) , criminology , sociology , juvenile delinquency , political science , law , violent crime , philosophy , linguistics , genetics , epistemology , biology
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.