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Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James Smith looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding and sensational reporting to an exact account of the events of that day. A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason achieves a unique understanding of the James Bulger case, and comes as close as may ever be possible to explaining how two ten-year-olds could kill. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Smith's The Sleep of Reason is a hard retelling of the crime and subsequent trial - almost brutal itself in the telling. He's not trying to answer the question, for instance, of why the boys did what they did or how the circumstances of their background, including significant abuse, contributed to their actions. Instead, he presents the facts as best they can be reconstructed and lets the reader come to conclusions. Bookending the story is a little bit of the history of murder committed by children in Britain and how society responded, and some thoughts on how he interprets the crime. This one will make you think: how do we treat these children? How do we try to keep this from happening? What is society's response as these children grow up - can they become more than just child murderers? (