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When Children Kill Children - Penal Populism and Political Culture (Paperback)
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When Children Kill Children - Penal Populism and Political Culture (Paperback)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture
examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the
response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide. The
book 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, held in secure detention for nine months and tried in an
adverserial court; Redergard's killers were shielded from public
antagonism and carefully reintegrated into the local community.
This book argues that English adverserial political culture creates
far more incentives to politicize high-profile crimes than
Norwegian consensus political culture. Drawing on a wealth of
empirical research, the author suggests that the tendency for
politicians to justify punitive responses to crime by invoking
harsh political attitudes is based upon a flawed understanding of
public opinion. In a compelling study, this book proposes a more
deliberative response to crime that accommodates the informed
public in news ways - ways that might help build social capital and
remove incentives for cynical penal populism.
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