- Hardcover: 280 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby (10 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749006102
- ISBN-13: 978-0749006105
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.3 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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- #62 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Sociology > Family & Social Groups > Age Groups > Adolescents
- #71 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Sociology > Family & Social Groups > Age Groups > Children
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A remarkable and very readable book ... The author deserves credit for tackling a taboo subject in a thoughtful way.
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A serious and sensitive account of a topic which is, surely, among the bleakest imaginable.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brutal but honest,
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This review is from: Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers (A & B Crime) (Hardcover)
Video nasties, porn and heavy metal music don't make happy children turn to murder. Children Who Kill shows exactly what these youngsters survived before they fought back. Carol Ann Davis tells us everything from their parents ages and occupations to their school experiences. She interviewed a detective about one British serial killing case to provide pages of information I haven't been able to find anywhere else. Did the reader who gave this book a one star review read the same book as me? The quotes simply showed that the author hadn't made her information up, that other criminologists share her awareness of what shapes these youthful killers. The TV show she refers to is an episode of Kilroy where a sexually abused girl spoke of wearing a wire to trap her abuser. And the women's magazine reference was to a parenting column. My only criticism of the book is that after a while you know how the case is likely to end: that is, the children who were tortured went on to torture, those who were raped went on to rape and those who were beaten went on to beat. But I guess that isn't the author's problem. She is simply telling the harrowing truth. Conventional readers may not like this book as it shines a spotlight on many of society's sacred cows and finds them wanting. It's also scathing about the way many adults treat their young.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a valuable study,
By A Customer
This review is from: Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers (A & B Crime) (Hardcover)
Many true crime books seem like a thinly disguised excuse to trot out sensational details of gruesome murders. There will always be the sort of audience who used to gather around the public gallows but some readers may wish to move on from the sensationalist approach and read this cool, lucid account. Carol Anne Davis spares us no detail of a number of recent cases but has also tried to find solutions to the tragedy of children who kill. You would never realise from reading tabloid reports on these cases that these children have usually been abused by parents or carers. They have not been posessed by the devil or born evil: they have been made that way. Often subject to harsh discipline or a fanatical religious upbringing these children are hardly likely to benefit from the twenty year sentences that are often demanded. Often they are suffering from too much discipline rather than too little.While this book may be a lone voice amid the tabloid chorus for harsher and hasher retribution it is certainbly worth listening to. The information is presented in short easily digestible chunks without sacrificing any depth. Highly recommended.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Young but deadly,
By A Customer
This review is from: Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers (A & B Crime) (Hardcover)
This book opens with the author telling of her childhood friendship with a boy who stabbed a girl, and that got me hooked. You wouldn't believe how young some of these killers are. There are ten year old sexual assaulters and eleven year old stranglers and twelve year old torturers. By their early teens some of them have moved on to rape. The older teens often killed more people, eg battering their parents to death then wiping out kids at their school. Although disturbing, I found this a very readable book which made me think differently about why children kill.
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