| Description |
1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Law and society |
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Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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| Contents |
1. Regulating infanticide through concealment of birth -- 2. Unwanted babies : humanitarianism and the infant -- 3. Insanities of reproduction : medico-legal knowledge informing infanticide law -- 4. Unwilling mothers : the disappearance of the "unwanted" baby -- 5. Vengeance for the innocents : the new medico-legal designation of "infanticide" as "child abuse homicide" -- 6. Retributive justice : the disappearance of infanticide -- App. Current legal framework governing maternal neonaticide |
| Summary |
"This book traces twentieth-century Canadian criminal justice responses to women who kill their newly born babies. Initially, juries were reluctant to convict these women of murder since it carried the death penalty. The current "infanticide" law was adopted in 1948 to impose uniformity on legal practice and to ensure a homicide conviction. Even then, prosecutors faced considerable difficulties, but now, amidst media pressure, and with public attitudes possibly hardening, there are calls for the repeal of the infanticide law and the adoption of a draconian framework to deal with these cases."--Amazon.com viewed Mar. 10, 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Infanticide -- Canada
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Infanticide -- Canada -- History
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Infanticide
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Sociological jurisprudence
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780774811767 |
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0774811765 |
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