When children kill children
Subtitle: penal populism and political culture
By: David A. Green.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780199230969
Subjects: Bulger, James Patrick, -- 1990-1993; Redergard, Silje; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- Public opinion; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Norway -- Public opinion; Violence in children -- England; Violence in children -- Norway; Children -- Crimes against -- England -- Bootle (Sefton) -- Case studies; Children -- Crimes against -- Norway -- Trondheim -- Case studies; Public opinion -- England; Public opinion -- Norway
Genres: Case studies.
Description: Examining the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide this title compares the differing responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile cases those of the killers of James Bulger and Silke Redergard.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.