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Anton Woode: Boy Murderer
by Dick Kreck
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing (2006-05-03)
ISBN: 1555915787
EAN: 9781555915780
Dewy Decimal #: 364.1523092
Paperback: 240 pages
Condition: Very Good
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Product Description
As he sat behind his lawyer at the defendant's table in the courtroom, no one who looked at the sweet-faced boy could believe that he was guilty of what he was on trial for-shooting a man in the back. He was, after all, only eleven years old, if his mother were to be believed. So begins this true tale of juvenile crime, focusing on one incident in 1892: murder by a young child. The murder itself proves to be secondary; the main focus-how this "act" by an 11-year-old formed the lives of the people involved. Here again, just as he did in Murder at the Brown Palace, Kreck is able to use his journalistic senses to uncover the story within the story. What seems to be a simple case of one kid gone bad, turns into an investigation of how juvenile crime was dealt with around the turn of the century, and how the system has come full circle today with punishment taking precedent over rehabilitation.
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