This book examines the idea of child murder in British culture during the 18th and 19th centuries through an exploration of literary, historical, philosophical, political and other texts. It also looks at the way in which child murder resounds in a variety of cultural debates and social practices, and explores the economic, political and social contexts of literary works in which child murder features.
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 by John H Laub and Robert J Sampson.
This book reports on a study exploring offending across the life course of 500 men from Boston, USA.
The men were remanded to reform school in the 1940s.
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