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Critically assess the impact of the way in which media and politicians represented the murder of James Bulger by Venables and Thompson on youth justice policy and practise over the last ten years.
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CJS2007 Critically assess the impact of the way in which media and politicians represented the murder of James Bulger by Venables and Thompson on youth justice policy and practise over the last ten years. On February 12th 1993 Jon Venables and Robert Thompson abducted a two-year-old boy from a shopping centre in Liverpool. The pair then proceeded to beat and murder him. At the time of the murder Venables and Thompson were only 10 years old. The murder of James Bulger has been one of the most notorious that Britain has ever seen. It caused outrage and disgust, 10 years later the James Bulger murder still causes much controversy. Venables and Thompson were found guilty of murder and sentenced. The trials judge justice Michael Moorland said they should be locked up for 'many many years' he recommended the pair be detained for at least 8 years. The chief lord justice then...
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