Tag: Juvenile Crime

The role of first-love and powerful emotions in adolescent female parricide including the cases of Jasmine Richardson, Erin Caffey, Kim Edwards and Sarah Johnson.

A new research study has found sleepy adolescents were more likely to be antisocial during adolescence and were 4.5 times more likely to commit crime by age 29.

Facebook has a dark side. A side where it is used to share details of crimes, impersonate someone else for sinister intentions, stalk a victim, bully a victim and in ...

Twenty years ago today on 6 April 1997, the lives of the Lillelid family were brutally taken in a terrifying act of violence carried out by a group of six ...

Juvenile crime, gangs and anti-social behaviour by youngsters has been debated almost daily with the age of criminal responsibility being at the center.

These are crimes which are most often picked up by the media due to their shock-factor and have everyone wondering just what makes a child kill.

Only 14% of recorded serial killers are under the age of 20 when they start killing and Cody Legebokoff of Canada was one of them. A boy who grew up ...

On 12th February 2008 at Green Junior High in Oxnard, California, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed 15-year-old Larry King inside their computer class. A violent act carried out in ...

The disorganised childhood and family genetics of Cyntoia Brown are explored in a troubling documentary filmed after her arrest for murder in 2004.

For children the lines between fiction and reality can often be blurred, as demonstrated in the recent Slenderman stabbing case.

Child criminals raise difficult questions for society and the juvenile justice system. The murder of James Bulger in 1993 being a case example.

Examining the case of Daniel Bartlam, who at 14 years old brutally murdered his mother in 2011, exploring just what does lead children and teens to kill?