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

Davis, Carol Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749006102 ISBN 13: 9780749006105

Publisher: Allison & Busby, 2003

Synopsis

Presents case studies of juvenile homicide, presenting profiles of children between the ages of ten and seventeen who have committed murder.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Anne Davis left school at fifteen and was everything from an artist's model to an editorial assistant before going to university. She has been a full time writer since graduating and is the author of four crime novels as well as non-fiction titles.

From Booklist:

It is a rarely acknowledged fact that children are capable of crimes as heinous as those committed by adults. In this deeply disquieting book, the author profiles 13 killers between the ages of 10 and 17. The author begins with the story of Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy who, at the age of 12, began by torturing younger children and a couple of years later graduated to homicide. That was in 1873. Later, she writes about Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the two 10-year-old Liverpool boys who achieved worldwide fame by luring toddler James Bulger from a shopping mall and murdering him. The subjects of this book are boys and girls who, for a variety of reasons, found the dark side of themselves far earlier than most people. The author keeps the editorializing to a minimum, preferring to let the plain facts speak for themselves. It's a good plan: the book is downright chilling. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0749006102
• ISBN 13: 9780749006105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288