David A. Green

When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture

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This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide, comparing the differing responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile cases: those of the killers of James Bulger and Silje Redergard respectively.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-965352-2
EAN: 9780199653522
Produktnummer: 22673873
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.5 cm 454 g
Gewicht: 454

Über den Autor

Dr David A. Green is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. His main research interests involve the interrelationship between crime, media, public opinion, and politics in a comparative perspective. His work has appeared in The British Journal of Criminology, Crime and Justice: A Review of Research,European Journal of Criminology, and Crime, Media, Culture. His first book, When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008 and won the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize. He was selected as a Straus Fellow at New YorkUniversity's Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice for 2010-11.