'The book is highly original. Viterbo's analysis has the rare quality of both documenting … [previously unknown] realities … and providing eye opening and oftentimes surprising insights … His methodology is a hybrid of empirical, philosophical, and socio-legal approaches, and it is in and of itself an impressive achievement … Terms such as 'childhood' and 'children's rights,' as Viterbo persuasively argues, can be weaponised against children … Despite the focus on Israel/Palestine, this book also makes a unique and highly original contribution to the field of childhood studies in general, and especially to socio-legal studies … [This book] is an exceptional work of academic scholarship.' Zvi Triger, Child and Family Law Quarterly
1. Conceptual and theoretical foundations; 2. Casting the first stone: the Israeli legal system, its human rights critics, and their approaches to young Palestinians; 3. The age of governing: young age as a means of control; 4. Boundary governance: amending childhood and separating Palestinians; 5. Stolen childhood: voice, loss, and trauma in human rights reports; 6. Sights of violence: childhood in the visual battlefield; 7. Infantilization and militarism: soldiers as children, children as soldiers; 8. Unsettling children: Israeli law and settlers' childhood.