Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan
David Ambaras
Abstract
A study of the political, social, and cultural history of juvenile delinquency in modern Japan, this book treats the policing of urban youth as a crucial site for the development of new state structures and new forms of social power. Focusing on the years of rapid industrialization and imperialist expansion (1895 to 1945), it challenges widely held conceptions of a Japan that did not, until recently, experience delinquency and related youth problems. The author reconstructs numerous individual life stories in the worlds of home, school, work, and the streets, and relates the changes that took ... More
Keywords: juvenile delinquency, modern Japan, social power, industrialization, imperialist expansion, social transformation, capitalist development, nation-state formation, imperialism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520245792 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520245792.001.0001 |
