When Children Kill Children
Penal Populism and Political Culture
This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive 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, and held in secure detention for nine months before being tried in an adversarial court, and served eight years in custody, a Redergard's killers were shielded from public antagonism and carefully reintegrated into the localcommunity. This book…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-162976-1
- EAN: 9780191629761
- Produktnummer: 13997752
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'382 KB
Über den Autor
Dr David A. Green is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He completed an MPhil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology in 2001 and was then awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD. Afterwards he was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and Research Associate at the University of Oxford Centre forCriminology.
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