Making a Monster : Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston /

Keetley, Dawn, 1965-

Making a Monster : Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston / Dawn Keetley. - Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781613765142


Pomeroy, Jesse Harding, 1859-1932.


Serial murderers--Psychology.
Violence in children--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.
Juvenile homicide--Massachusetts--Boston--Case studies.


Electronic Books.

HV9067 / .M355 2017