Youth, Globalization, And the Law

by Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi

• ISBN13: 9780804754743
• ISBN10: 0804754748
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-20
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses. As practices and ideas travel the globesuch as the promotion and transmission of zero tolerance and retributive justice programs, the near ubiquitous acceptance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the transnational migration of street gangsthe legal arena is being transformed. The essays in this book offer case studies and in-depth analyses, spanning diverse settings including courts and prisons, inner-city streets, international human rights initiatives, newspaper offices, local youth organizations, and the United Nations. Drawing on everyday social practices, each chapter adds clarity to our current understanding of the ways in which ideas and practices in different parts of the world can affect youth in one particular locale.

Author Biography

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of Research in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies; and Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia University. He is the author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2002). Ronald Kassimir is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Political Science at the New School for Social Research. He is a co-editor of Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia (2005).

Table of Contents

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
PART I Youth, Globalization, and the Law: Overviews
1 Youth and Legal Institutions: Thinking Globally and Comparatively	3
SUDHIR ALLADI VENKATESH and RONALD KASSIMIR
2 Youth Justice and the Governance of Young People: Global, International, National, and Local Contexts	17
JOHN MUNCIE
PART II Criminalization and Urban Governance
3 Refugee Gang Youth: Zero Tolerance and the Security State in Contemporary U.S.-Salvadoran Relations	61
ELANA ZILBERG
4 Policing the Youth: Toward a Redefinition of Discipline and Social Control in French Working-Class Neighborhoods	90
LAURENT BONELLI
5 Policing Ourselves: Law and Order in the American Ghetto	124
SUDHIR ALLADI VENKATESH and ALEXANDRA K. MURPHY
PART III Institutional Regulation and Youth Response
6 Youth, (Im)migration, and Juvenile Law at the Paris Palace of Justice	163
SUSAN J. TERRIO
7 Prison Walls Are Crumbling: The American Way of Punishment and Its Consequences	192
BRENDA C. COUGHLIN
8 Public Spaces, Consumption, and the Social Regulation of Young People	223
ROB WHITE
PART IV Contradictions of Youth Empowerment: Rights and International Law
9 The Rise of the Child as an Individual in Global Society	255
ELIZABETH HEGER BOYLE, TRINA SMITH, and KATJA M. GUENTHER
10 The Law, Institutions, and the Struggle for Social Change: Brazil's Estatuto da Criança e Adolescente	284
JOHN A. GUIDRY
11 Global Regulation and Local Political Struggles: Early Marriage in Northern Nigeria	321
ANNIE BUNTING and SALLY ENGLE MERRY
CONTRIBUTORS	355
INDEX	361