When children kill children : penal populism and political culture /

Examining the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide this title compares the differing responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile cases those of the killers of James Bulger and Silke Redergar...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Green, David A.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2008]
Zusammenfassung:
Examining the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide this title compares the differing responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile cases those of the killers of James Bulger and Silke Redergard.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxiii, 328 p. ) ill., charts ;
Anmerkungen:
Reworking of the authors thesis (Ph. D.), University of Cambridge, 2006, entitled The politics of tragedy.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-319) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-162976-6
0-19-169649-8
Schlagworte:
Bulger, James, > 1990-1993.
Redergard, Silje.
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