Counter-Construction Of Children

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In chapter four “Media Constructions of Children”, it discusses complex and commonly inconsistent presumptions made about young children. It also goes into a famous 1993 case where a two-year-old boy named James Bulger was murdered by two older boys. The boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were ten years old at the time of their crime. The chapter then goes into how children aren’t just offenders but also tragic victims of pedophiles. According to Yvonne Jewkes, in 1993 “children became regarded as evil monsters capable of committing the most depraved acts, but by 1996 a counter-construction of children emerged” (pg. 111). Some of the complex assumptions made about children and crime in the media are that children are evil monsters. The

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