Becoming delinquent: European Youth 1850-1950. Conference Programme

DAY ONE - 9th April

9.00-9.45 Registration

9.45-10.00 Welcome

10.00-11.30 Session 1

Session 1. Continuity and change (Chair John Beattie)

• Peter King (Nene)
  Juvenile delinquency: was there a great transformation?
• Paul Griffiths (Leicester)
  Juvenile delinquency and the 'problem' of the long and colonizing 18th century

11.30-11.45 Coffee

11.45-1.15 Sessions 2a and 2b

Session 2a. Criminologies
Chris Leonards (Maastricht)

Border crossings in the European realm of juvenile care: the genesis of a new concept of the criminal child in the discourse on juvenile care in the 19th century

• Peter Becker (Florence)
  Endangered minds, endangered growth: juvenile delinquency as seen by 19th century German practitioners and criminologists
• Mary Gibson (New York)
  Criminal anthropology and juvenile delinquency in liberal and fascist Italy

Session 2b. Prosecution Patterns

• Ulf Drugge and Mats Jacobsson (Umea)
  Juvenile criminals and lifecourses in the 19th century: the case of the north Swedish regions
• Howard Taylor (Cambridge)
  Painting moral canvasses by numbers: were there prosection quotas by age and gender in England and Wales in the 19th and 20th centuries?

1.15-2.15 Lunch

2.15-3.45 Sessions 3a and 3b

Session 3a. Gender

• Linda Mahood (Guelph)
  Gendered thinking in the history of delinquency
• Pamela Cox (Essex)
  On the margins of justice: policing girls in 20th century Britain
• Franca Iacovetta (Toronto)
  Gossip, contest and power in the making of suburban bad girls: Toronto 1940s-1950s

Session 3b. Institutions

• Valentina Tikoff (Indiana)
  Orphan asylums as reformatories in ancien regime Seville
• Jenneke Christiaens (Brussels)
  Testing the limits: understanding penitentiary coercion through the resistance of juvenile delinquents
• Heike Schmidt (Hamburg)
  Risky girls and girls at risk: correctional education and girls in Imperial Germany

3.45-4.15 Tea

4.15-5.45 Session 4

Session 4. Violence

• John Springhall (Ulster)
  Corrupting youthful morals: Charlie Peace, Sheffield killer of the 1870s, as cultural icon
• Cat Nilan (Arizona)
  Crimes inexplicables: murderous children and discourse of monstrosity in Romantic-era France
• Andy Davies (Liverpool)
  Glasgow street gangs in 1920s and 30s
• Heather Shore (Cambridge)
  The Sleep of Reason: comparative representations of child violence in Britain from the 18th century

7.00-9.00 Dinner

DAY TWO - 10th April

9.30.11.00 Sessions 5a and 5b

Session 5a. Transportation

• Bernd Weisbrod (Gottingen)
  The 'Mandarin' Boys: Juvenile delinquency and exile in the Parkhurst experiment]
• Avril Kyle (Monash)
  The boys on the Lord Goderich: the transportation of convicted juveniles to the Australian colonies in the 1830s and 1840s

Session 5b. Respectability

• Carolyn Taylor (Manchester)
  Gender, respectability and delinquency in the late Victorian city
• Julie Gammon (Essex)
  Immodest maids: female virtue and reputation in the 18th century courtroom

11.00-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.45 Sessions 6a and 6b

Session 6a. Social breakdown and reform

• Annmarie Turnbull (Goldsmiths)
  I was a person in the world whom no-one took any notice of: Pearl Jephcott's gentle vision for Britain's youth
• Sarah Fishman (Houston)
  Family breakdown and juvenile delinquency in France, 1930s and 1940s
• Astri Andresen (Bergen)
  Reformed youth: Norway 1900-1945

Session 6b. Elites

• Campbell Lloyd (Glasgow)
  Containing students: the Glasgow experience (late 17th century to early 20th century)
• Benjamin Roberts (Groningen)
  On not becoming delinquent. Raising adolescent urban elite boys in the Dutch Republic, 1600-1800
• Maria Boes (West Chester)
  Dishonorable youth: guilds and the marginalization process of juveniles in early modern Germany: a case study

12.45-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.30 Sessions 7a and 7b

Session 7a. Street culture

• Svetlana Sidorenko-Stephenson (Essex)
  Abandoned Russian children: changing images and explanations from the late 19th to the mid-20th century
• Verena Lippold (Gottingen)
  Conceptualizing juvenile delinquency: the ethnographic mode in mid-Victorian Britain
• Joel Harrington (Vanderbilt)
  Juvenile delinquents and juvenile criminals in early modern Nuremberg

Session 7b. Extremes

• Deborah Thom (Cambridge)
  Delinquency and war in twentieth century Britain
• Nick Stargardt (Royal Holloway)
  Escape from Breitenau: reformatory lives in Nazi Germany

3.30-4.00 Tea

4.00-5.30 Session 8

Session 8. Plenary panel

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Date: 9.3.1999

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