Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-Teen and Teenage Killers
May 2014 · Allison & Busby
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Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Society regards children as harmless - but for some the age of innocence is shortlived, messy and ultimately murderous.Mary Bell, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are infamous for their crimes against other children, but many of the less familiar studies here are equally as shocking. Thirteen murderers - the youngest only ten - used fire, poison, bullets and strangulation on victims from infants to pensioners. In a comprehensive study of juvenile homicide, Carol Anne Davis offers new psychological insights and a hard-hitting look at the role of society in an area too shocking to ignore.
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Christa Kaye Gayares
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December 31, 2015
It's fascinating and an eye opener as media portrays them as cold blooded killers. By deed, yes but this book provides a deeper insight unto the whys. A great debate over nature vs nurture still.
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sica h
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August 29, 2019
Scary behaviour by children but even scarier behaviour by their caretakers. But I'm not a believer that an abused child should be excused for these crimes, as she seems to suggest. I recognise that bad parenting can mean a child will repeat this experience but an awful lot of them never do,so what is the difference between them? A question not really answered
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Tara Jamieson
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July 7, 2016
Disturbing and sad insight in to these children's lives. Writen with sympathy too. Great read.
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About the author
CAROL ANNE DAVIS was born in Dundee, moved to Edinburgh in her twenties and now lives in the south of England. She left school at fifteen and was everything from an artist`s model to an editorial assistant before going to university. Her MA degree included criminology and was followed by a postgraduate diploma in Adult and Community Education. She is an expert on true-crime and is the author of the bestselling '...Who Kill' series.
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