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The socio-judicial regulation of juvenile sexuality in Montreal in the first 20th century

Abstract

How does the Court of Young Offenders in Montreal, an institution resulting from the major North American social reform movement of the early 20th century, be responsible for regulating sexual deviations among young boys and girls in Montreal in the first half of the 20th century? Sexuality appears to be a major motivation for reformers to extend the youth justice net to pre-criminal situations. This biopoliticalsurveillance project for juvenile bodies is part of the new social risk management doxaPreventive, which drives social policies as new criminal policies at the turn of the century. This irregular sexuality, which then seems to endanger the young Canadian nation, is first and foremost that of girls, whose emancipation is feared by the development of employment and urban culture promoting autonomy and sexual promiscuity. The Great War is still witnessing this anxiety, the venerian peril of which is a fixing point. As for boys, whose gender identity is less explicitly associated with sexual deviations at the beginning of the century, their practices are receiving increasing attention from the miners’ judiciary. Onanism, tolerated as a collective ritual of the child group, is becoming the stigma of a nervous disorder pointed out by the new juvenile psychism experts. Male homosexuality, honest but ignored, only became a social problem from the 1940s onwards. Thus, the issue of gender appears to be central to decrypting this modulation of judicial intervention in the intimate sphere. Another attribute of identity is the age that drives the judicial response, while gradually outlining recognition of teenagers’ emotional autonomy, provided that flirtt practices comply with the joint requirements of families and the Court. The issue of legitimate leisure is then very much discussed. Finally, judicial intervention also points to sexuality, Tapie in the thickness of domestic violence. While incest remains a big taboo in a very Catholic Quebec blindly enshrining paternal authority, the criminalisation of adults by the Court of juvenile offenders gradually criminalises, with euphemism, domestic violence, of which sexual exploitation is one aspect.

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