Unwilling mothers, unwanted babies : infanticide in Canada /

"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 uniformi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kramar, Kirsten Johnson, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2005.
Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Subjects:
Infanticide > Canada.
Infanticide > Canada > History.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Infanticide > Canada > Histoire.
Sociologie juridique.
Infanticide
Sociological jurisprudence
Canada
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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