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100 Years of the Infanticide Act

Author : Karen Brennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509961658
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years of the Infanticide Act written by Karen Brennan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world. It is 100 years since an Infanticide Act was first passed in England and Wales. The statute, re-enacted in 1938, allows for leniency to be given to women who kill their infants within the first year of life. This legislation is unique and controversial: it creates a specific offence and defence that is available only to women who kill their biological infants. Men and other carers are not able to avail of the special mitigation provided by the Act, nor are women who kill older children. The collection brings together leading experts in the field to offer important insights into the history of the law, how it works today, the impact and legacy of the statute and potential futures of infanticide laws around the world. Contributors consider the Act in practice in England and Wales, the ways it has been portrayed in the British media and justifications for and criticisms of the provision of special treatment for women who kill their infants within a year of birth. It also looks at the criminal justice responses to infanticide in other jurisdictions, such as Australia, Ireland, Sweden and the United States of America.

100 Years of the Infanticide Act

Author : Karen Brennan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509961666
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide

Author : Martha Smithey
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787439518
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide written by Martha Smithey and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of "good" mothering.

Forensic cultures in modern Europe

Author : Willemijn Ruberg
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526172348
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Forensic cultures in modern Europe written by Willemijn Ruberg and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses cases from criminal, civil and international law to parse the impact of forensic evidence and expertise in different European countries. The contributors show how modern forensic science and technology are inextricably entangled with political ideology, gender norms and changes in the law and legal systems. Discussing fascinating case studies, they highlight how the ideology of authoritarian and liberal regimes has affected the practical enactment of forensic expertise. They also emphasise the influence of images of masculinity and femininity on the performance of experts and on their assessment of evidence, victims and perpetrators. This book is an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices.

Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide

Author : Emma Milne
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839096225
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide written by Emma Milne and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's responses to suspected infanticide.

Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Author : Kathryn Burtinshaw
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526734567
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Madness, Murder and Mayhem written by Kathryn Burtinshaw and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the judicial system in Britain. This book explores these changes and explains the rationale for purpose-built criminal lunatic asylums in the Victorian era.Specific case studies are used to illustrate and describe some of the earliest patients at Broadmoor Hospital the Criminal Lunatic Asylum for England and Wales and the Criminal Lunatic Department at Perth Prison in Scotland. Chapters examine the mental and social problems that led to crime alongside individuals considered to be weak-minded, imbeciles or idiots. Family murders are explored as well as individuals who killed for gain. An examination of psychiatric evidence is provided to illustrate how often an insanity defence was used in court and the outcome if the judge and jury did not believe these claims. Two cases are discussed where medical experts gave evidence that individuals were mentally irresponsible for their crimes but they were led to the gallows.Written by genealogists and historians, this book examines and identifies individuals who committed heinous crimes and researches the impact crime had on themselves, their families and their victims.

Historical Criminology

Author : David Churchill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429589441
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Historical Criminology written by David Churchill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its potential to enhance, revise and fundamentally challenge dominant modes of thinking about crime and social responses to crime. It considers the following questions: What is historical criminology? What does thinking historically about crime and justice entail? How is historical criminology currently practised? What are the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to historical criminology? How can historical criminology reshape understandings of crime and social responses to crime? How does thinking historically bear upon major theoretical, conceptual and methodological questions in criminological research? What does thinking historically have to offer criminological scholarship more broadly, and the uses of criminology in the public realm? In this book, Churchill, Yeomans and Channing situate ‘historical thinking’ at the heart of historical criminology, reveal the value of historical research to criminology and argue that criminologists across the field have much to gain from engaging in historical thinking in a more regular and sustained way. This book is essential reading for all criminologists, as well as students taking courses on theories, concepts and methods in criminology.

Principles of Criminal Law 3/e

Author : Duncan Bloy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135341400
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Criminal Law 3/e written by Duncan Bloy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bloy and Parry's Principles of Criminal Law

Author : Michael T. Molan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1859415806
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Bloy and Parry's Principles of Criminal Law written by Michael T. Molan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infanticide

Author : Rachel Dixon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000474178
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Infanticide written by Rachel Dixon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The first book to examine medical expert evidence in infanticide cases focusing in particular on the shifting notion of ‘certainty’ in medical testimony. - Explores the changing relationship between medical experts and the courts. - Explores the changing perception of infanticidal women by the courts.

The Howard Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Howard Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sex and Crime

Author : Alexandra Fanghanel
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1529752280
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Sex and Crime written by Alexandra Fanghanel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To explain how sex and crime is composed by, and composes, our understanding of these issues, this book: Draws on the authors’ research expertise, insightful case studies, and leading scholarship from across the globe. Develops students’ capacity to engage thoughtfully with diverse problems and to think critically, this is achieved with the help of creative learning exercises, empathetic questioning, and relevant illustrative examples. Encourages readers to be reflexive, open-spirited, and curious about how issues of sex and crime touch their lives and those of people around them.

Infanticide

Author : William Burke Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Infanticide written by William Burke Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death

Author : Sally Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317157877
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death written by Sally Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime of manslaughter exists as a 'catch-all offence' to punish those who are blameworthy in causing the death of another but whose culpability falls short of that required for murder. Manslaughter is an extremely broad offence and it has a difficult task in ensuring that all those who warrant punishment for 'non-aggressive' deaths are convicted. Simultaneously, it should not be too broad in covering those who do not warrant punishment for such deaths. There is little consistency in whether a particular dangerous activity leads to liability for a specific offence or for the generic offence of manslaughter when death is caused. This book examines the current law and includes a variety of perspectives on the subject with chapters on specific modes of killing as well as issues that permeate all areas. The first half of the book deals with issues such as how any special offences for non-aggressive death should relate to a hierarchy of homicide offences. The second half deals with issues specific to different activities, which may or may not justify the creation of specific homicide offences. The book includes a comparative chapter on Australian law.

Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies

Author : Kirsten Johnson Kramar
Publisher : Law and Society
ISBN 13 : 9780774811774
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies written by Kirsten Johnson Kramar and published by Law and Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Kirsten Kramar provides an interdisciplinary feminist approach to the study of infanticide law, examining and linking historical, sociological, and legal scholarship. She examines in detail the legislative history and infanticide case law, as well as the range of relevant medical discourses from the past 100 years. By doing this, she provides a more nuanced approach to the debates around the broader issues of the medicalization of women’s deviance – one that reveals some of the political dangers inherent in hasty critiques of infanticide law, and shows the value of careful interdisciplinary analysis for studies in the history of law and socio-legal relations. Drawing on a wide range of original data sources (provincial and federal indictment case files, coroner’s records, reported legal cases, Hansard Parliamentary Debates, official crime statistics, media reports, and expert medical texts), Kramar presents a detailed picture of the developments, revealing the often ironic consequences of attempts to rationalize this area of law. An established feminist critique of "infanticide" as an inappropriately medical concept is shown to have been largely unhelpful, misconstruing the phenomenon’s history and significance, and lending support to calls for a "get tough" approach Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies makes an important contribution to the international literature on maternal neonaticide as well as the medicalization of deviance, and will be of interest to those working in law, sociology, criminology, women’s studies, and gender history.

Infanticide

Author : Margaret G. Spinelli
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
ISBN 13 : 1585627542
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Infanticide written by Margaret G. Spinelli and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maternal infanticide, or the murder of a child in its first year of life by its mother, elicits sorrow, anger, horror, and outrage. But the perpetrator is often a victim, too. The editor of this revealing work asks us to reach beyond rage, stretch the limits of compassion, and enter the minds of mothers who kill their babies -- with the hope that advancing the knowledge base and stimulating inquiry in this neglected area of maternal-infant research will save young lives. Written to help remedy today's dearth of up-to-date, research-based literature, this unique volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of 17 experts -- scholars, clinicians, researchers, clinical and forensic psychiatrists, pediatric psychoanalysts, attorneys, and an epidemiologist -- who focus on the psychiatric perspective of this tragic cause of infant death. This comprehensive, practical work is organized into four parts for easy reference: Part I presents historical and epidemiological data, including a compelling discussion of the contrasting legal views of infanticide in the United States, United Kingdom, and other Western countries, a review of the latest statistics on maternal infanticide, and a discussion of the problems of underreporting and the lack of available documentation. Part II covers the psychiatric, psychological, cultural, and biological underpinnings of infanticide, detailing how to identify, evaluate, and treat postpartum psychiatric disorders. The authors explore clinical diagnosis, symptom recognition, risk factors, biological precipitants, and alternative motives, such as cultural infanticide. Chapter 3, developed to assist the attorney or mental health professional in understanding the implications of postpartum psychiatric illness as they relate to infanticide, presents a sensitive and thorough inquiry into infanticidal ideation. Part III focuses on contemporary legislation, criminal defenses, and disparate treatment in U.S. law and compares U.S. law with the U.K.'s model of probation and treatment. Chapter 8 is an especially useful resource for the attorney or expert psychiatric witness preparing for an infanticide/neonaticide case in the criminal court system. Part IV discusses clinical experience with mothers as perpetrators and countertransference in therapy, the range of mother-infant interactions (from healthy to pathological), and methods of early intervention and prevention. This balanced perspective on a highly emotional issue will find a wide audience among psychiatric and medical professionals (child, clinical, and forensic psychiatrists and psychologists; social workers; obstetricians/gynecologists and midwives; nurses; and pediatricians), legal professionals (judges, attorneys, law students), public health professionals, and interested laypersons.

Policing the Womb

Author : Michele Goodwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110703017X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Policing the Womb written by Michele Goodwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Policing the Womb, Michele Goodwin explores how states abuse laws and infringe on rights to police women and their pregnancies. This book looks at the impact of these often arbitrary laws which can result in the punishment, incarceration, and humiliation of women, particularly poor women and women of color. Frequently based on unscientific claims of endangering a fetus, these laws allow extraordinary powers to state authorities over reproductive freedom and pregnancies. In this book, Michele Goodwin discusses real examples of women whose pregnancies have been controlled by the law and what has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for a woman to be pregnant.