SEX - SADISM AND MURDER
- BRUTALITY AND PERVERSION
- PROSTITUTION AND DRUG ADDICTION
These are the trademarks of the teen-age gangs
Publisher: Hillman Macfadden Books
Number: 50-109
Publishing Year: 1961
Printing: First
Cover Price: 50c
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SEX-and-SADISM by teen-agers!
MURDER-and-MAYHEM by mere children!
You read about it every day in your newspaper but . . .
WHY did a pretty Texas teen-ager kill her brother "just for kicks?"
WHY did a boy say calmly, "I don't know why I killed him; I didn't even know him?
WHY did a seventeen-year old say, "I wanted to see how it felt for a knife to dig into bone?"
WHY did a clean-cut youngster stomp a total stranger to death because he didn't like the tune the man was humming?
Jess Stearn, top New York newspaperman, goes behind the scenes to search for the "why" in this carefully documented study of what happens before and after the headlines.
