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Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-Teen and Teenage Killers

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? Traditionally, society is used to regarding children as harmless — but for some the age of innocence is short-lived, messy and ultimately murderous. Children Who Kill is a comprehensive new study of juvenile homicide. Carol Anne Davis sets out to explore this disturbing subject using in-depth case studies of thirteen killers aged between ten and seventeen. Exclusive interviews with experts offer an invaluable insight into the psychology behind these atrocities and a hard-hitting look at the role of society in an area too shocking to ignore

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 383
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780749006938
  • Genres
  • crime, psychology, reference
  • Release date
  • 2011