Blood Brothers: Sibling Influence in Crime

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 9, 2015

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty for his role in the Boston bombing, despite his lawyer's argument that he was influenced by his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Jonathan Caspi, a professor of family and child studies at Montclair State University and an expert on sibling relationships, and Susan Zalkind, a freelance reporter based in Cambridge, MA, who has covered the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev case for The Daily Beast and whose story The Murders Before the Marathon was named one of the best longform stories of 2014, discuss relationships between siblings, as it pertained to the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial.

Tamerlan was a "monstrous" Golden Glove boxer, while Dzhokhar is "almost a pretty boy character" says @susanzalkind on Boston Bombing trial.
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"Probably the greatest secret: sibling abuse is the most common form of child maltreatment...but you look up to that person." @siblingexpert
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"Older brothers have influence over younger brothers, sisters w/ sisters. Not so much cross-sex," says @siblingexpert pic.twitter.com/CIHuAkbCh9
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