Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers [Paperback]

"Children Who Kill," by Carol Ann Davis, is a comprehensive new study of juvenile homicide. The author sets out to explore this subject using in-depth case studies of 13 children aged between 10 and 17. Exclusive interviews with experts offer insight behind their actions, and a look at the role of society in an area too shocking to ignore." -- Grand Forks, ND The Herald

A serious and sensitive account of a topic which is, surely, among the bleakest imaginable. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Complex yet so simple,these stories implicate abusive parents and other irresponsible adults who might have saved these kids but didn't. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Traditionally, society is used to regarding children as harmless -- but for some the age of innocence is short-lived, messy and ultimately murderous.Children Who Kill is a comprehensive new study of juvenile homicide. Carol Anne Davis sets out to explore this disturbing subject using in-depth case studies of thirteen killers aged between ten and seventeen. Exclusive interviews with experts offer an invaluable insight into the psychology behind these atrocities and a hard-hitting look at the role of society in an area too shocking to ignore

There are seventeen profiles in this book encompassed in thirteen chapters as some of the children killed in pairs. There are additional chapters on Children Who Kill Their Families, Children Who Kill Their Friends, Youthful Sex Killers, etc, which include numerous case studies of juvenile homicide.

Children learn by example - so the sexually abused boys who feature in this book sometimes went on to sexually abuse even younger boys. Similarly, a boy who was whipped went on to flagellate his victims and a girl who was semi-strangled copied this and strangled both her victims to death.

Some first class interviewees contribute to Children Who Kill. Claire Rayner spoke to me about the dangers of offering violence to children whilst Don Hale told of his struggle to get a wrongly-convicted child set free. And Detective Chief Superintendent Sagar explained the multiply-abused background of Britain's youngest serial killer, a boy who claimed twenty six lives. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Carol Anne Davis was born in Dundee, moved to Edinburgh in her twenties and now lives in the south of England. She left school at fifteen and was everything from an artist's model to an editorial assistant before going to university. Her MA degree included criminology and was followed by a postgraduate diploma in Adult and Community Education. She has been a full time writer since graduating and is the author of three crime novels, Shrouded, Safe as Houses and most recently Noise Abatement. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.