When Children Kill Children

Dr David A. Green is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. His main research interests involve the interrelationship between crime, media, public opinion, and politics in a comparative perspective. His work has appeared in The British Journal of Criminology, Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, European Journal of Criminology, and Crime, Media, Culture. His first book, When Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008 and won the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize. He was selected as a Straus Fellow at New York University's Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice for 2010-11.

• 1. When children kill children ; 2. Culture, politics in the media in Norway and England ; 3. Crime and punishment in Norway and England ; 4. The constraints and effects of political culture ; 5. The constraints of discourse ; 6. Media constraints and the formation of political opinions ; 7. Contextualizing tragedy ; 8. English penal policy climates and political culture ; 9. Political culture, legitimacy, and penal populism ; 10. Public opinion versus public judgment ; 11. Effecting penal climate change

Many people talk of the need for comparative method in criminology, few have attempted it and even fewer contribute so imaginatively to the forefront of scholarship as does David Green in this study.