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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477180603321

Autore

Kalb Martin

Titolo

Coming of age : youth and juvenile delinquency in Munich, 1942-1973 / / Martin Kalb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-154-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Classificazione

NS 2960

Disciplina

364.360943/3640904

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquency - Germany - Munich - History - 20th century

Youth - Political activity - Germany - Munich - History - 20th century

Munich (Germany) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I - Delinquency in the Crisis Years, 1942-1949; Chapter 1 - Constructing the Delinquent Boy and the Sexually Deviant Girl; Chapter 2 - Controlling Juvenile Delinquents in the Crisis Years; Part 2 - Americanization and Youth Cultures in the Miracle Years, 1949-1962; Chapter 3 - Constructing the Halbstarke and the Teenager; Chapter 4 - Controlling Youth and Society in the Miracle Years; Part 3 - Political Activism in the Protest Years, 1962-1973; Chapter 5 - Constructing the Student and the Gammler

Chapter 6 - Controlling Protestors in the Protest YearsConclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the lean and anxious years following World War II, Munich society became obsessed with the moral condition of its youth. Initially born of the economic and social disruption of the war years, a preoccupation with juvenile delinquency progressed into a full-blown panic over the hypothetical threat that young men and women posed to postwar stability. As Martin Kalb shows in this fascinating study, constructs like the rowdy young boy and the sexually deviant girl served as proxies for the diffuse fears of adult society, while allowing authorities ranging from local institutions to the U.S. military government to strengthen



forms of social control.