When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture

by David A. Green

Book Overview

This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the subject of child-on-child homicide.

Green explores the reasons underlying the vastly differing responses of the English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to the cases of James Bulger and Silje Redergard respectively. Whereas James Bulger's killers were subject to extreme press and public hostility, held in secure detention for nine months before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019923096X
• ISBN13: 9780199230969
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"