1. Introduction: Constructing Juvenile Delinquency in a Global Context; Heather Ellis PART I: COLONIAL CONTEXTS 2. Adolescent Empire: Moral Dangers for Boys in Britain and India, c. 1880-1914; Stephanie Olsen 3. The Road to the Reformatory: (Mis-)communication in the Colonial Courts between Judges, Juveniles, and Parents in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942; Amrit Dev Kaur Khalsa PART II: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION 4. It Takes a Village: Budapest Jewry and the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency; Howard Lupovitch 5. Latino/a Youth Gangs in Spain in Global Perspective; Miroslava Chávez-García PART III: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND WAR: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PERSPECTIVES 6. Bad Boys? Juvenile Delinquency during the First World War in Wilhelmine Germany; Sarah Bornhorst 7. Empire's Little Helpers: Juvenile Delinquents and the State in East Asia, 1880-1945; Barak Kushner PART IV: COLD WAR CONTEXTS 8. A Soviet Moral Panic?: Youth, Delinquency and the State, 1953-1961; Gleb Tsipursky 9. Danger and Progress: White Middle-Class Juvenile Delinquency and Motherly Anxiety in the Post-War United States, 1945-1965; Nina Mackert PART V: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND THE POST-WAR STATE 10. Becoming Delinquent in the Post-War Welfare State: England and Wales, 1945-1965; Kate Bradley 11. Mapping the Turkish Republican Notion of Childhood and Juvenile Delinquency: The Story of Children's Courts in Turkey, 1940-1990; Nazan Çiçek