100 Years of the Infanticide Act

1. 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: The Law in Context
Karen Brennan (University of Essex UK) and Emma Milne (Durham University, UK)

Part I: The Infanticide Act in Practice
2. Manslaughter, Concealment of Birth and Infanticide, 1900-37
Rachel Dixon (University of Hull, UK) and Tony Ward (Northumbria University, UK)

3. Infanticide and Diminished Responsibility - Reviewing the Relationship
Ronnie Mackay (De Montfort University, UK)

Part II: Understandings, Misunderstanding and Questions of Principle
4. 'Sometimes the Worst Happens': Newspaper Reportage of Infanticide and the Law in England and Wales Since 1922
Daniel JR Grey (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

5. Myths and Moral Agency: A Principled Approach to Infanticide Law
Helen Howard (Teesside University, UK)

6. The Infanticide Act 1938 as a Means to Provide Justice for Women against the Hardships and Harms of Pregnancy and Motherhood?
Emma Milne (Durham University, UK) and Karen Brennan (University of Essex, UK)

Part III: Criminal Justice Responses to Infanticide Beyond England and Wales
7. The Use and Non-Use of Infanticide Provisions in Australian Criminal Laws
Arlie Loughnan (University of Sydney, Australia)

8. Capital Punishment and Infanticide Law in Ireland
Lynsey Black (Maynooth University, Ireland) and David M Doyle (Maynooth University, Ireland)

9. Infanticide in Sweden - From Condemnation to (Too Much?) Consideration
Maria Kaspersson (University of Greenwich, UK)

10 A Crazy Quilt: Infanticide in the United States
Susan Ayres (Texas A&M University, USA)

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child homicide; motherhood; gender and law; sex and the law; medico-legal; neonaticide; filicide