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A 3 page book review that summarizes and analyzes the content of Robert Heckel and David Shumaker’s text, which is an informative study of pre-teen murderers, Children Who Murder: A Psychological Perspective (2001). The reviewer argues that their text is enormously useful to practitioners in the field of criminology, as well as policymakers and the public, because it offers a comprehensive overview of literature on this topic, as well as originally research that concerns meta-analysis of case studies. No additional sources cited.
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these disturbed children had been treated as juvenile; however, there is a recent trend in which juveniles are increasingly being tried as adults. Robert Heckel and David Shumaker begin their
informative study of pre-teen murderers, Children Who Murder: A Psychological Perspective (2001), with a case that occurred in 2000 in which a 13-year-old boy was tried as an adult in
the State of Michigan for a murder he committed as an 11-year-old. Their text is enormously useful to practitioners in the field of criminology, as well as policymakers and the
public, because it offers a comprehensive overview of literature on this topic, as well as originally research that concerns meta-analysis of case studies. The text is divided into three
sections, which consist of summation of research, developmental issues and assessment and interventions. The first four chapters address research on this topic and they focus on the demographic characteristics of
this group of offenders, detailing who they are; what they are like; predictors of who will kill and describing the means by which the courts deal with these pre-teen offenders.
Throughout these chapters, the authors offer insight into understanding these children. For example, they point out that one of the "most consistent findings in the literature is that the majority
of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, instability of caretaker situation and/or residency, absence of a father, parental alcohol
or drug abuse, parental psychiatric history, parental criminal background and violence in the home" (Heckel and Shumaker 40). The most common "adverse familial variable" was a "history of physical
abuse" (Heckel and Shumaker 40). This section of the text concludes with the observation that there is a growing trend "for greater control of juvenile offenders and lower tolerance for
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