Social Science Research Council

Chapter 1. Introduction by Sudhir Venkatesh, Editor (Columbia University)

Part I. Criminalization and urban governance

Chapter 2. "Youth Justice and the Governance of Young People: Global, International, National and Local Contexts," John Muncie (The Open University, UK)

Chapter 3. "Refugee Gang Youth: Zero Tolerance and the Security State in Contemporary US-Salvadoran Relations," Elana Zilberg (University of California-San Diego)

Chapter 4. "Policing the Youth: Towards a Redefinition of Discipline and Social Control in French Working-class Neighbourhoods" Laurent Bonelli (Universite Paris X Nanterre, Revue Cultures et Conflits, Paris)

Chapter 5. "Policing Ourselves: Law & Order in the American Ghetto," Sudhir Venkatesh and Alexandra Murphy (Columbia University)

Part II. Institutional regulation and youth response

Chapter 6. "Youth (Im)migration and Juvenile Law at the Paris Palace of Justice," Susan Terrio (Georgetown University)

Chapter 7. "No Child Left Behind? The American Way of Punishment and its Consequences for Families," Brenda Coughlin (Colubmia University)

Chapter 8. "Public Spaces, Consumption and the Social Regulation of Young People," Rob White (University of Tasmania)

Part III. Contradictions of youth empowerment: rights and international law

Chapter 9. "Power and Autonomy in the History of Children's Rights," Elizabeth Boyle, Trina Smith, & Katja Guenther (University of Minnesota)

Chapter 10. "Civil Society, Law, and Institutional Bases for Change: Brazil's Estatuto da Criança e Adolescente," John Guidry (Division of Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine)

Chapter 11. "Global Regulation and Local Political Struggles: Early Marriage in Northern Nigeria" Annie Bunting & Sally Merry (Wellesley College)

Chapter 12. "Ethnocentrism, Identity, and Concepts of Citizenship among European Youth in Times of Rapid Social Change," Klaus Boehnke & Daniel Fuss (International University, Bremen)