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Autore |
Kramar Kirsten Johnson <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Unwilling mothers, unwanted babies : infanticide in Canada / / Kirsten Johnson Kramar |
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Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Infanticide - Canada |
Infanticide - Canada - History |
Sociological jurisprudence |
Infanticide - Canada - Histoire |
Sociologie juridique |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies -- Introduction -- 1 Regulating Infanticide through Concealment of Birth -- 2 Unwanted Babies: Humanitarianism and the Infant -- 3 The 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 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Current Legal Framework Governing Maternal Neonaticide -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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