In the early post-war decades, thousands of boys and girls were employed by juvenile courts in Greece either because they committed an offense or because they were considered to be "morally at risk" of committing someone in the future or because their parents declined to do so. At the same time, concerns about young people's behavior turned into a political issue with national and international dimensions: transnational policies were formed around it, state and private interventions were organized, legislation was adopted and scientific papers were written.The book examines some of the forms that young people's post-war discipline took in three interdependent dimensions: the international public issue of "juvenile delinquency" - and its Greek version, "child and juvenile delinquency", its constitution and operation the juvenile justice mechanism and the relationships between juvenile caregivers and caregivers, minors who were in charge of overseeing and reforming their families in a time of great social and political change. ischemic reconstitution. The study draws on rich and varied factual material: periodicals, Greek and foreign, on juvenile 'delinquency' or 'criminality', individual files of boys and girls employed by juvenile justice in Athens and Thessaloniki in the 1950s and '60s and oral testimonies of older caregivers and caregivers of minors about their work experience.

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