Derrick robie case. Eric Smith (murderer) Eric M.
Smith (born January 22, 1980) is an American criminal, incarcerated for the murder of four-year-old Derrick Robie (born October 2, 1988) on August 2, 1993, in Steuben County, New York. Smith was convicted of second-degree murder in 1994 and sentenced to the maximum term then available for juvenile murderers—a minimum of nine years to life in prison. Smith enjoyed spending time with his grandparents, Red and Edie Wilson; Red said "He'd always come in and give us hugs and kisses. He liked being a clown. Eric smith murderer of derrick robie.
James bulger case. Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of the Mods and Rockers - Stanley Cohen. A better world for children?: explorations in morality and authority - Michael King. Boy taken from his mother at the shopping mall. – after being kicked, beaten and stoned, James's body was left on a railway track for his body to be cut in two. Monsters of our own making: the peculiar pleasures of fear - Marina Warner. Child Killers - Bulger - Whiting - Ian Huntley - Mary Bell - Child Killers - Murder UK. Thatcher's children. In defence of video nasties' British Journalism Reviewbjr.sagepub.com doi: 10.1177/095647489400500312 British Journalism Review September 1994 vol. 5 no. 3 52-57 The first page of the PDF.
Blake Morrison on the James Bulger murder. The BBC called it a "landmark case", and so it was.
It came to symbolise a moral panic about children - the threat of other people's, the defencelessness of our own. But for the first few hours after James Bulger went missing, it was assumed that the abductor was an adult.