David Niget

David Niget is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre d'histoire du droit et de la
justice, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is coordinating a research
programme on the History of Youth and Violence involving an interdisciplinary
collaboration with the departments of Sociology and of Criminology of the
University of Louvain. Since 2005, he has also coordinated an international research
collaboration on Risk and Governmentality in Modern Societies, between the Centre
d’histoire du droit et de la justice and the Centre d’Histoire des régulation sociales
of the Université du Québec à Montréal (forthcoming publication). His PhD thesis
(History, University of Angers & Université du Québec à Montréal, 2005), was
published in 2009 : La naissance du tribunal pour enfants. Une comparaison France-Québec, Presses universitaires de Rennes. He has edited special issues of the Revue d’histoire de l’enfance irrégulière, on youth and violence (no 9/2007) and of Histoire et Sociétés. Revue européenne d’Histoire sociale on juvenile delinquency
and justice in the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe, North America and Russia
(n° 25-26/2008).