Criminals given new Identities

An interesting subject area is the giving of new identities to criminals. When some criminals, often child-killers, are deemed as no danger to the public, they are often provided with new identities. This is most likely such an interesting subject area due to the enigma it creates and how under documented it is... What is the process of providing a criminal with a new identity? Do they deserve a second chance? Where are they now?
This is a controversial issue, as the taxpayers money is being used to fund these new identities.


http://www.lifedeathprizes.com/real-life-crime/killers-given-new-identities-46521
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255608/Yet-250-000-new-identity-Jamie-Bulger-murderer.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/15/law.duncancampbell



This documentary provided a particularly interesting insight into the lives of child murderers, using the case study of Jamie Bulger's murderers. This shows the controversy of the matter and also takes us through the realities of the process of allocating new identities.


Thoughts:

• Short narrative film following a child killer through the process of being awarded a new identity/potentially based on a true event
• It would most likely be difficult to gain access to real life examples of people with new identities, as the whole idea of them being given a new identity is so they can't be traced