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Author Keetley, Dawn, 1965- author.

Title Making a Monster : Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston / Dawn Keetley
Published Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
Contents Preface -- Chronology -- Introduction: Becoming monstrous -- Crimes -- On trial -- "The mark of the meat market" -- "Dime novel Pomeroy" -- "A moral monster" -- The scourge of smallpox -- Epilogue. Abused as a child? -- Notes -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Pomeroy, Jesse Harding, 1859-1932.
SUBJECT Pomeroy, Jesse Harding, 1859-1932
Pomeroy, Jesse Harding, 1859-1932 fast
Subject Serial murderers -- Psychology
Violence in children -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies
Juvenile homicide -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Juvenile homicide
Serial murderers -- Psychology
Violence in children
Massachusetts -- Boston
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613765142
1613765142