Bad youth : juvenile delinquency and the politics of everyday life in modern Japan / David R. Ambaras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ambaras, David Richard, 1962-

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--Japan--Prevention--History--20th century.

Juvenile delinquency.

At-risk youth--Government policy--Japan--History--20th century.

At-risk youth.

Urban youth--Government policy--Japan--History--20th century.

Urban youth.

Social control--Japan--History--20th century.

Social control.

Social change--Japan.

Social change.

Japan--Social conditions--20th century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 297 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The first in-depth study of the political, social, and cultural history of juvenile delinquency in modern Japan. Bad Youth treat the policing of urban youth as a critical site of the development of new state structures and new forms of social power. Focusing on 1895 to 1945, the years of rapid industrialization and imperialist expansion, David Ambaras challenges widely held conceptions of a Japan that did not, until recently, experience delinquency and related youth problems."

"Bad Youth draws from official sources as well as press accounts, novels, songs, and films. Throughout, Ambaras demonstrates that juvenile protection remained contested terrain marked by complex negotiations among reformers, young people, and the adults in their lives, for whom the promises and perils of modernity could assume starkly different meanings."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Unruly youth and the early modern polity

Assimilating the lower classes

Civilizing "degenerate students"

Popularizing protection

Preparing modern workers, policing modern play

Juvenile delinquency and the national defense state

Epilogue: The century of juvenile protection.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p.267-291) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-93220-X