As if

Description:

Called to be a courtroom observer at the trial of two 10-year-old boys who stand accused of the kidnapping and murder of a 2-year-old child, author Blake Morrison finds himself grappling with questions of culpability, capacity, and the strange mixture of innocence and cruelty that defines childhood.

subjects: Case studies,  Children,  Crimes against,  Juvenile homicide,  Murder,  Trails (Murder),  Trials (Murder),  Violence in children,  Kindesmisshandlung,  Kindesmord,  Jugendlicher Täter,  Murder, great britain,  Trials (murder), great britain,  Children, crimes against,  Children, great britain

People: Bobby Thompson (1982-),  Robert Thompson (1982-),  James Patrick Bulger (1990-1993),  Jon Venables (1982-)

Places: England,  Liverpool