Language English ISBN 978-0805417944 Published 1998 Country United States of America | Media type Print Subject Juvenile delinquency | |
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Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence is a 1998 non-fiction book by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Evangelical Christian author and pastor George Grant.
The book is a response to the Jonesboro massacre, arguing that the tragedy was the result of a society in decline, and that abortion, pornography, media violence, premarital sex, divorce, drug abuse and homosexuality were the cause of the decline.
Huckabee's themes are that the breakdown of the family structure leads to childhood crime, as well as to a high level of other immoral acts. Huckabee details these themes in his outline of the book (pp. 4-5) as follows:
The book caused some controversy when, in December 2007, several news sources, including Mother Jones, reported that the book equates environmentalism with pornography, homosexuality with necrophilia, and nonbelievers with "evildoers". During the 1998 Arkansas gubernatorial race, Democratic nominee Bill Bristow criticized Huckabee for making money off of the Jonesboro massacre.