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Savage Spawn

Reflections on Violent Children

by Jonathan Kellerman
Richard Gilliland
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THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CHIEL PSYCHOLOGIST EXPLORES A DISTURBING AND INCREASINGLY COMMON TREND: CHILDREN WHO KILL. As the recent tragedies in Oregon, Arkansas, and Colorado Have shown, children as young as eight years old are capable of murder and violence. No community is safe from this tragic phenomenon, and experts ranging from law enforcement officials to guidance counselors are confused and conflicted about how to approach it. Now bestselling novelist Jonathan Kellerman returns to his roots as a scientist and child psychologist to dissect a problem that is attacking the core of our society: dangerous children who, in all likelihood, will grow up to be dangerous adults. Kellerman explores the "nature v. nurture" theory, discusses the legal and psychological ramification of treating such children as adult criminals, and tackles, with surprising results, the popular idea that violence in the media is to blame. More than a crash course in understanding the "Hows" and "whys" of this issue, SAVAGE SPAWN is a controversial study that will engender much needed discussion.

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    April 17, 2007

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      • File size: 86123 KB
      • Duration: 02:59:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The personal tragedy and social threat of childhood violence are skillfully unfolded through many vignettes of violent, psychopathic boys--boys without a conscience who are largely unreachable through conventional therapies. These scary narratives are served well by the writer's novelistic skills; the stories are as elegant as they are poignant. When reading dramatic content like this, it's a challenge not to overact, and efforts to restrain such tendencies can make this sort of material sound flat. But this reader's interpretation is just about right--intense and serious but not overbearing. The pace of the reading might be a little fast for some listeners, but good sentences and skillful articulation make every word understandable. T.W. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 28, 1999
      Novelist Kellerman, a child psychologist who often uses the fictional character of Dr. Alex Delaware as his foil, here tackles the hot topic of violent children in a nonfiction format--part of the ongoing Library of Contemporary Thought series. Using the recent school shootings in Oregon, Arkansas and Colorado as a hook, he vents his own views on "childhood criminality as a social destructor." Relying on personal case histories, he provides a general profile for kiddie psychopaths. Mostly boys, from all kinds of backgrounds, these habitually violent kids are marked by their bravado and lack of conscience. In short, they're cold-blooded monsters who, when given access to guns, become deadly threats. Kellerman's personal views can be shrill, even alarmist, as he rails against such ills as "Marxist-derived social science norms," yet this novelist-on-a-soapbox diatribe plays convincingly in Gilliland's forceful reading, like an artfully constructed public speech. Based on the 1999 Ballantine paperback.

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