Index

A

abolitionists
adoption
Aesop’s Fables
Aestheticism
African American youths
Aggelis, Steven
AIDS crisis
Albert Memorial
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Story of a Bad Boy
Alien (film)
Almond, David and Dave McKean
Savage
Alpert, Hollis
Altheide, David L.
Anatol, Giselle Liza
Anderson, Maxwell
Bad Seed
Both Your Houses
High Tor
Winterset
Anecdotes of a Boarding School
animals
autobiographies
cruelty to
experimentation on
rights and welfare
anti-consumerism
Apollonian child
aporia
April Love (film)
Arnold, Thomas
Astounding Science Fiction (magazine)
atom bomb
attachment disorders
Austenfeld, Thomas
autism

B

Back to the Future (film)
Bad seed, trope
Bad Seed (film)
Baldwin, Hanson W.
Barnardo boys
Barnett, Brooke
Barrie, J.M.
Peter Pan
Peter and Wendy
Bateman, Geoffrey W.
bear-baiting
behaviorism
Beirne, Piers
Bellamy, Liz
benevolence/charity
Benny’s Video (film)
Benson-Allott, Caetlin
Benson, John
Bernardine (film)
Bixby, Jerome
It’s a Good Life
Blackboard Jungle (film)
Blackburn, Mollie V.
Black Christmas (film)
black comedy
blackmail
Blackwell, Bonnie
Blackwell, Tom
Blake, William
Blum, Deborah
Blyton, Enid
boarding school novels (early)
Bockler, Nils
Bohlmann, Markus P.J.
Bonn, Scott A.
Boone, Pat
Boris, Neil W.
Boulahanis, John G.
boxing
Boy (film)
Boyer, Paul
Boys Next Door (film)
Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Small Assassin
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Veldt
Brant, Sebastien
Ship of Fools
Brantlinger, Patrick
British Empire
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Brooks, Richard
Brown, Jennifer
Hate List
Bruhm, Steven
Brumbaugh, Florence
Buchanan, Robert
“The Fleshly School of Poetry,”
Buckridge, Anthony
Bulger, James
bull-baiting
bullies/bullying
Burman, Erica
Burns, Ronald
Busch, Charles
Psycho Beach Party (film)
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (film)
Die, Mommie, Die! (film)
Bussing, Sabine
Butts, Jeffrey
Byrne, Katharine
Byron, Lord

C

Cadden, Mike
Café Lafitte
camp criminality
camp humor
Canguilhem, Georges
cannibalism
Capote, Truman
Cardi, Pat
Carlson, David Lee
Carpenter, John
Carroll, Noel
Cart, Michael
Case Against Satan (film)
Castle, William
Check, Sid
Chermak, Steven M.
chiaroscuro
child/childhood
abuse/neglect
agency
beauty
constructivist views of
evil
gifted
innocence
monsters
psychopaths/sociopaths
supernatural
child-centred home/society
Child of Rage (film)
Child’s Play (film)
Clark, Beverly Lyon
Clark, Caroline T.
class/class oppression
Clute, John
Coates, Paul
cock-fighting
Cohen, Stanley
Cold War
Cole, Matthew
Cole, William
Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls
Collier, Cindy
Collier, Jane
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
Collins, Suzanne
Hunger Games
comic books/graphic novels
Comics Code Authority (CCA)
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE)
competition, competitive
conduct books
conduct disorders
Confidential File (television show)
Conrad, Peter
consumption
Cook, Alistair
Cool and the Crazy (film)
Cooper, Laurence
Cormier, Robert
Chocolate War
corporal punishment
Cosslett, Tess
Coupland, Douglas
Hey Nostradamus!
Court TV
Cousins, Norman
Coveney, Peter
Coventry, Francis
History of Pompey, the Little
Craft (film)
Crane, Stephen
Crawford, Charles
Crawford, Joan
Crime Stories (television show)
Crime SuspenStories (comic book)
Criminal Minds (television show)
criminology
Croydon, Joan
Culkin, MacCaulay
Cunningham, Hugh
Currivan, Gene
Curry, Alice

D

Daddy’s Girl (film)
Dark Mysteries (comic book)
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Hazel K.
Davis, Jack
Davis, James E.
Day, Thomas
History of Little Jack
History of Sanford and Merton
Dean, James
death drive
Dee, Sandra
Denham, Reginald
Dennis the Menace (comic strip)
Dershowitz, Alan
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Dickens, Charles
Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
didacticism
Dilulio, John J.
Dingley, Robert
Diskin, Lahna
Doherty, Thomas
Double Indemnity (film)
Dragnet (radio and television show)
drag racing
drag queens
Dreyfus, Hubert Lederer
Drizin, Steven A.
Duffy, John Charles
Dunae, Patrick
Durrell, Anne
Dyer, Richard
dystopian fiction

E

Edelman, Lee
Eden Lake (film)
Edgeworth, Maria
Moral Tales
education
children and
teachers/schoolmasters
Elikann, Peter
Eliot, George
Silas Marner
empathy
Empire Strikes Back (film)
Enlightenment thought
Escher, M.C.
House of Stairs
evangelical
moralism
writers
Every Secret Thing (film)
Euripides
Medea
exceptionalism
Exorcist (film)

F

fairy tales
family values
Faulkner, William
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Serial Murder
Ferguson, Christopher
Fey, Tina
Fielding, Sarah
Governess
Field, Sally
Fight against Crime (comic book)
Fine, Anne
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flegel, Monica
Flynn, Gillian
Foucault, Michel
Discipline and Punish
History of Sexuality
Power/Knowledge
Frankenstein
Franklin, C.E.
Fraser, George MacDonald
French Revolution
French, Tana
Freud, Sigmund
Freudian
Frick, Paul J.
Friday the Thirteenth (film)

G

Gailey, Christie
Gaines, William
Galloway, Alexander R.
Galway, Elizabeth A.
Gambaudo, Sylvie
Gannett, Lewis
Garden, Nancy
Endgame
Garrett, Roberta
Gates, Barbara
genealogy
genetics
Georgian society
Georgieva, Margarita
Gidget (film)
Gilbert, Sandra M.
Gilling, John
Gamma People (film)
Gleason, Mona
Good Son (film)
Gorey, Edward
goth girls
gothic fiction
Greenberg, Jeff
Green, John
Looking for Alaska
Green, Nigel
Grenby, M.O.
Griswold, Jerry
Grubb, Davis
Night of the Hunter
Gruenewald, Jeffrey A.
Guasp, April
Gubar, Susan
Gurel, Perin

H

Haberman, Clyde
Hajdu, David
Hall, Donald E.
Hall, G. Stanley
Hall, Henry
Hallie, Phillip P.
Hall, Susan
Halloween (film)
Hancock, Lynnell
Hardy, Thomas
Hare, Robert
Hartung, Philip
Harwood, Valerie
Hatch, Robert
Hawkesworth, John
Adventurer
Heathers (film)
Heckart, Eileen
Heltsley, Martha J.
Hemingway, Ernest
heritability
Higonnet, Anne
Hiroshima
History of Little Goody Two Shoes
History of Little King Pippin
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitler Youth
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoffmann, Heinrich
Hogarth, William
Four Stages of Cruelty
Home Movie (film)
homicide/murder
homophobia
homosexuality
Honneth, Axel
Horne, Jackie C.
Horner, Avril
horror
Horseman (film)
horse racing
Hou, Jing
Hughes, Thomas
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
hunting
Hutchings, Peter
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World

I

incest
industrial revolution
Isherwood, Christopher
It-narratives
Ivory, James D.
Iyer, Pico

J

Jackson, Chuck
Jackson, Shirley
Life Among the Savages
Raising Demons
Road Through the Wall
Jacobs, Robert
James, Allison
Jenkins, Christine A.
Jenkins, Philip
Jenks, Chris
Jeremiah, Emily
Johnson, Richard
Jones, Chris
Jones, Henry
Jones, Justin T.
Joseph, Jay
Joshua (film)
juvenile delinquency

K

Kafka, Franz
Kahn, Jennifer
Kaltenborn, H.V.
Kefauver, Estes
Kellerman, Jonathan
Kelly, Nancy
Kennedy, John F.
Kerr, Walter F.
Kershner, Irvin
Killer Kids (television show)
Kilner, Dorothy
Life and Perambulations of a Mouse
Kilner, Mary Ann
Adventures of a Pincushion
King, Thomas
Kirschner, David
Krause, Michael
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Kuttner, Henry
Absalom

L

Lacan, Jacques
Lamb, Charles
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Mrs. Leicester’s School
Lancaster, Joseph
Latham, Monica
Laughton, Charles
Laurence, William
Law and Order: SVU (television show)
law enforcement
Leitch, James
Lennard, Dominic
Lerer, Seth
LeRoy, Mervyn
Let’s Kill Uncle (film)
Levithan, David
Two Boys Kissing
Levy, Michael
Lewis, Jim
LGBTQ identities
in YA fiction
liberal humanism
Lieberman, Alicia F.
Lifton, Betty Jean
Linville, Darla
Little Sweetheart (film)
Lizardi, Ryan
Locke, John
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Lohan, Lindsay
Lopez-Ropero, Lourdes
Lord of the Flies (film)
Love Me Tender (film)
Lowry, Lois
Giver
Lury, Karen
Lynam, Donald R.

M

MacCann, Donnarae
Macdonald, John
MacLean, Jill
Hidden Agenda of Sigrid Sugden
Mad Magazine
Madonna
mad scientists
Manhattan Project
manic pixie dream girls
March, William
Bad Seed
Markey, Anne
Marquess of Queensbury
Marsh, Sarah
Martineau, Harriet
Crofton Boys
masculinity
Mattfeld, Monica
Maury Povich Show (television show)
McAdams, Rachel
McCallum, Robyn
McCarten, John
McCormack, Patty
McDuffie, Kristi
Mean Girls (film)
medicalization
Medina, Meg
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Melvin the Monster (comic book)
Memoirs of Dick, the Little Poney
Merril, Judith
That Only a Mother
Messer, Jane
Meyer, Moe
Meyer, Stephanie
Twilight
Mikey (film)
Michael Meyers ( Halloween ) 188
Milgram, Stanley
Millais, John Everett
Bubbles
Miller, Arthur
Miller, J. Mitchell
Mills, Claudia
Mills, Sarah
Mimic (film)
Moodie, Susanna
Hugh Latimer
Mommie Dearest (film)
Montgomery, L.M.
Anne of Green Gables
moral panic
Moreland, Sean
Morgado, Margarida
motherhood
Motion Picture Production Code
Muller, Vivienne
Muschert, Glenn W.
My Bloody Valentine (film)
Myers, Walter Dean
Shooter

N

Nagasaki
Nassar, Christopher S.
National Juvenile Justice Network
National Socialism
naturalism
nature vs. nurture
Nazis
Nelson, Claudia
neoliberalism
Nesbit, E.
Newbery, John
Newburn, Tim
Newsom, Robert
Ngai, Sianne
Ugly Feelings
Nightmare on Elm Street (film)
Norris, Frank
McTeague
Pit
Norris, J.F.
Nostrand, Howard
nunnery tales
nurseries
nursery rhymes
Nyberg, Amy Kiste

O

Oates, Joyce Carol
O’Grady, Rohan
Let’s Kill Uncle
Omen (film)
Oppenheimer, Robert
oppositional defiant disorder
orphans/orphanages
Orwell, George
Nineteen Eighty Four
Ostry, Elaine
Out of the Shadows (comic book)
Owen, Alice

P

Paper Boy (film)
parricide
Patterson, Steven W.
Paul, William
Peacock, Margaret
Pearson, Susan J.
Peck, George W.
Peck’s Bad Boy and his Pa
pediatrics
peer pressure
Pendlebury, Kate
penitentiary/prison
Peter Palette’s Tales
pet-keeping
Petley, Julian
Petzold, Dieter
Phillips, Adam
Phipps, Gregory
Piaget, Jean
Pickering, Samuel F.
Picoult, Jodi
Nineteen Minutes
Pizarro, Jesenia M.
Poehler, Amy
Polidori, John
Pope, Alexander
Cruelty to Animals
Porter, Katherine Ann
Ship of Fools
Pre–Raphaelites
Presley, Elvis
Problem Child (film)
Prom Night (film)
Prose, Francine
After
Psycho (film)
psychology
developmental
Freudian
narcissism
psychopathy
sociopathy
public schools
Pulteney, Sir William
Pung, Alice
Laurinda

Q

Queen Victoria
queer aesthetics
queer child
queer humor
queer sexuality
queer theory

R

Rabinow, Paul
racism
Rana, Marion
Rapping, Elayne
Ratelle, Amy
Rawlins, Roblyn
Ray, Nicholas
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Reagan, Ronald
Rebel Without a Cause (film)
recapitulation theory
Redd, William H.
Reed, Ishmael
rehabilitation
Reid, Raziel
When Everything Feels Like the Movies
reincarnation
Relative Fear (film)
Renner, Karen J.
reproductive futurism
Reynolds, Debbie
Reynolds, Joshua
Age of Innocence
Richardson, Alan
Rickover, Admiral
Robertson, Pamela
Rock Around the Clock (film)
Rollin, Lucy
Romantic writers/romanticism
Romero, George A.
Rosemary’s Baby (film)
Rosewood Lane (film)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Ross, Lynda
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Emile
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter series
Chamber of Secrets
Cursed Child
Deathly Hallows
Goblet of Fire
Half-Blood Prince
Order of the Phoenix
Prisoner of Azkaban
Sorcerer’s Stone
Rowson, Martin
RSPCA
Rugby School
Ruggaber, Michelle

S

Salekin, Randall T.
Salem witch trials
Sanders, Joe Sutliff
Sandham, Elizabeth
Boys’ School
Sands-O’Connor, Karen
Sartre, Jean Paul
No Exit
Satanic Panic
satire
Schell-Lambert, Theo
Schober, Adrian
school shootings
school stories (early)
science fiction
Sears, Fred E.
Seeger, Thorsten
Segal, Nancy L.
Selby, Chip
self-esteem
self-love
serial narratives
serial killers
sensibility
sentimentalism
Sewell, Anna
Black Beauty
Shelley, Mary
Shepard, Jim
Project X
Shepherd, Robert E., Jr.
Sherwood, Robert
Shiner, Larry
Shiras, Wilmar
Children of the Atom
Showalter, Elaine
Showgirls (film)
Shriver, Lionel
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Shurlock, Geoffrey
Siegfried, Susan L.
Silence of the Lambs (film)
Simmonds, Roy
Simmons, J.
Sinclair, Catherine
Holiday House
Sitzer, Peter
Skinner, B.F.
Sleator, William
House of Stairs
Oddballs
Take Charge
Smith, Charlotte
Minor Morals Interspersed with Sketches of Natural History
Smith, Karen Manners
social media
social mobility
Sontag, Susan
Spencer, Jane
spiritualism
Spock, Dr.
Springer, Jim
Springhall, John
Stalinism
Stanford Prison Experiment
Steege, David K.
Steintrager, James A.
Stewart, Kate
Stockton, Kathryn Bond
Stoneley, Peter
Stopbullying.gov
Straley, Jessica
Strangers (film)
Straub, Kristina
Stryker, Rachel Joan
Studlar, Gaylyn
suicide
Sullivan, Daniel
Sumiala, Johanna
Sunset Boulevard (film)
superpredators
Sutherland, Neil
Szasz, Thomas

T

tabula rasa
Tague, Ingrid H.
Tainted Blood (film)
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence
Tales from the Crypt (comic book)
Tallant, Robert
Tammy and the Bachelor (film)
Tanenhaus, David S.
Taylor, Barbara
Taylor, Elizabeth and Jane
Correspondence Between a Mother and Her Daughter
Taylor, Kathleen
Teacher’s Report: Homophobic Bullying
Terror Management Theory
Thatcher, Margaret
Them (film)
Thompson, David
Thom, Robert
Tomb of Terror (comic book)
transphobia
trauma
Travis, Jeremy
Trimmer, Sarah
Fabulous Histories
Two Farmers
Trites, Roberta Seelinger
Trombetta, Jim
tutor-child fiction
Twain, Mark
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twilight Zone (television show)
twins
Twisted (film)

U

utilitarianism

V

vampires
van Bijlert, Jan
Girl Teasing a Cat
Varden, Evelyn
Vault of Horror (comic book)
Vidal, Gore
video games
Village of the Damned (film)
Villa, Jose Garcia

W

Waggenspack, Beth
waifs
Wakefield, Priscilla
Juvenile Anecdotes
Walsh, Moira
Warshow, Robert
Waters, John
Female Trouble (film)
Pink Flamingos (film)
Polyester (film)
Serial Mom (film)
Waters, Mark
Watson, C.G.
Quad
Weart, Spencer
Webb, Jack
Webb, Jen
Webb, Robert
We Need to Talk about Kevin (film)
werewolves
Westfahl, Gary
West, Mae
Wickenden, Dan
Wilde, Oscar
A House of Pomegranates
Happy Prince and Other Tales
Soul of Man under Socialism
Wilder, Billy
Wilkins, Amy C.
Williams, Tennessee
Winston, Mathew
Witney, William
Wolff, Larry
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Original Stories from Real Life
Wong, Jennifer
Wood, Elijah
Wood, Naomi
Wood, Robin
Woodson, Stephanie Etheridge
Woodward, Steven
Wordsworth, William
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
World War II
Wright, Joseph
Experiment on a Bird
Two Girls Dressing a Kitten
Wright, Richard A.
Wyndham, John
Midwich Cuckoos

X

X-Files (television show)

Y

Yanich, Danilo
Young, Thomas
Essay on Humanity to Animals

Z

Zeanah, Charles
Zlosnik, Sue
Zoglin, Richard
Zola, Emile
zombies
zoos
Zorn, Claire
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