CRIMINOLOGY

James Bulger Case

James Bulger Case

Introduction

James Patrick Bulger (James Patrick Bulger; 16 March 1990 , Liverpool - 12 February 1993 , Walton ) - English child, a victim of murder. When his mother briefly left him unattended in the supermarket "New Strand 'in Bootle , he noticed two boys - John Venebls ( Eng. Jon Venables) and Robert Thompson ( Eng. Robert Thompson). They took it with him, brutally beaten and poured paint the face and left for dead on railway tracks in the Walton, to disguise his murder by an accident on the train. The crime was quickly solved by recording in a shopping center is on hold, as a child being taken away.

On Friday, February 12th 1993 25 year old Denise Bulger went shopping with a friend of his brother and took with him his two-year-old son James. At half past two they came to "New Strand," where, having made several purchases, at 15:40 went to the butcher shop. As the great James nashalil in children's clothing store, where they were before, Dennis had left him behind the door of the shop. She did not plan to linger in the shop, but the butcher has managed to mix up her order. When she came, she saw that her son was gone. Viewing records video reveals how her son was taken away two boys, with which were 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venebls. Time was listed on the record 15:42.

The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, passed by the Conservative government, contained a disparate series of provisions on evidence, sentencing and public order. Part I of the Act focuses on custodial sentences for young offenders and created a new custodial order for offenders aged 12-15 - the secure training order (ss. 1-15). Part I also doubled the maximum period of detention available to sentencers in the youth courts (s. 17); and extended the custodial sentencing provisions (provided by s. 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 for children aged 10-14 convicted in the Crown court of a serious offence (s. 16)). Each of these provisions aimed to encourage greater severity in sentencing and the wider use of custodial penalties, particularly for children under the age of 14.

This represented something of a U-turn in youth justice policy. The Criminal Justice Act 1991 had set out a sentencing framework for the courts that placed restrictions on the use of custody. Indeed, custodial sentences had been dismissed as 'an expensive way of making bad people worse' (Home Office 1990). However, by 1994 a series of events prompted a more hard-line approach. There is little doubt that the government was, in part, reacting to the murder of James Bulger by two 10-year-olds in 1993 which, for some, symbolized the greater capacity of younger children for violent behaviour. However, the 'new punitiveness' was also a campaign by a politically weak government to gain popularity (Goldson 2002a) and was a manifestation of increasing frustration on the part of some practitioners and policymakers at previous ...