A small minority of children and adolescents can be dangerous, violent and murderous. Gwyneth Boswell researched this field throughout the 1990s. Having identified an urgent need for an assembly of evidence about aetiology and treatment of these young people, she has brought together a formidable body of academic and professional experts, specifically to address the question ?Why??.
Acknowledgements ix
List of Contributors xi
Prologue xv
Gwyneth Boswell
Chapter 1 Children who kill: trends, reasons, and procedures 1
Paul Cavadino and Rob Allen
Chapter 2 Adolescent violence: findings and implications from the Cambridge study 19
David P. Farrington
Chapter 3 Understanding and treating adolescent firesetters 36
Kevin Epps and Clive R. Hollin
Chapter 4 The antecendents of young male sex offenders 56
Victoria Harris and Carl Staunton
Chapter 5 The link between childhood trauma and later violent offending: a case study 71
Paul Renn
Chapter 6 Self-directed violence in adolescence: a psychotherapeutic perspective 91
Cairns Clery
Chapter 7 Violent adolescent females offenders 104
Susan Bailey
Chapter 8 Violent young people detained in a maximum security psychiatric hospital 121
Deborah Richards and Andrew Smith
Chapter 9 Aggressive and bullying behavior in children and adolescents 138
Helen Cowie
Chapter 10 The influence of film and video on young people and violence 151
Kevin Browne and Amanda Pennell
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