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Informationen zum Autor Karen Brennan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex, UK. Dr Emma Milne is Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Durham University, UK. She is a socio-legal scholar and a feminist criminologist. Emma’s research is interdisciplinary, focusing on criminal law and criminal justice responses to women who are considered to have broken the law. Emma’s monograph Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother was published in 2021. She co-authored Sex and Crime (2020), and co-edited Women and the Criminal Justice System: Failing Victims and Offenders? (2018), The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence (2023), and Gendering Green Criminology (2023). Klappentext 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. Vorwort The first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 – R...
