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Some might say, with feeling – returning to the Edlington case – that child perpetrators are given precedence over victims (child victims!), and where's the justice in that?
And that this in part requires a staunch belief in the potential for rehabilitation of even the most notorious child perpetrators.
This may be a conservative estimate, since some unsolved homicides may have child perpetrators.
There were 154 child suspects, which corresponds to an average annual rate of 1.2 child perpetrators per million child population.
We use data on child perpetrators of homicide from states reporting to the National Violent Death Reporting System NVDRSS) for all years 2005 2012.
There also have been many case studies examining the psychiatry and environments of child perpetrators of homicide (Shumaker and Prinz 2000).
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Mark Drumbl, a law professor at Washington and Lee, observes that "whereas the child perpetrator targeting Africans tends to be held as a mindless captive of purposeless violence, the child perpetrator targeting Westerners tends to be held as an intentional author of purposeful violence".
We also read every homicide classified as having a child perpetrator (n = 146).
The child perpetrator typically uses a weapon, either a gun or knife.
This study examined the power of child, perpetrator, and socio-economic characteristics to predict injury in cases of reported child physical abuse.
Third, in some homicides there is no suspect, so some cases with a child perpetrator may not have made it into our list of cases.
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