Kids. They know about sex, they are experimenting with drugs &, increasingly, they are committing offences & finding themselves in court. But beyond the general troublemaking & ASBOs there are kids who commit the worst possible crime: murder. Cases of child homicide are rare, but they are especially horrific & they have a profound effect on all society. Can children be inherently evil? Is evil learned, & if so, from where? Jonathan Paul goes beyond the sensationalist headlines to investigate why these crimes happen, examining child homicide in today's violent, confusing world & putting it in context against the cruel retribution of yesterday. The cases are shocking, but sometimes the path towards them is even more so. This is what happens when childhood is trodden underfoot: this is when — & why— kids kill.