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The Commandment Reconsidered: From Neighbors to Neighborhoods The Commandment Reconsidered: From Neighbors to Neighborhoods
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A Framework Where Neighborhoods Imply Race A Framework Where Neighborhoods Imply Race
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Biblical Metaphors and Patriotic Rituals of Neighborhood Against Delinquency Biblical Metaphors and Patriotic Rituals of Neighborhood Against Delinquency
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Reciprocity as an Alternative Mode of Delinquency Prevention and Treatment Reciprocity as an Alternative Mode of Delinquency Prevention and Treatment
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3 Juvenile Delinquency and the Love of Neighbor
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Published:June 2024
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Abstract
While filmmakers and social scientists framed juvenile delinquency through race and social environment, Chapter Three shows how public schools also cultivated juvenile delinquency as a religious category through a surprising source: the biblical commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. In drawing on the commandment, schools mirrored religious institutions. Christian and Jewish religious leaders often used the neighbor commandment to address delinquency among their own. Black churches maintained that Black communities would benefit from caring for “your neighbor” who had fallen into delinquency. By contrast, public schools employed the commandment in instructional films, neighborhood “clean up” parades, and other embodied lessons to articulate moral purity. Deep archival research from files at the Schomburg Center for Black Culture and New York Public Library on racial integration, and anti-vandalism/anti-delinquency files at the Board of Education and Teachers’ Guild Archives (held at NYU’s Tamiment Library) anchor the chapter. Schools pulled from contemporary social sciences, which identified “high delinquency areas” as areas with large populations of Black and Puerto Rican youth. The schools’ commandment to love your neighbor as yourself restructured students’ familiarity with the phrase and neighborhoods’ physical space to define morally good neighborhoods against neighborhoods in need of reformation.
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