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 year

This edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses cases from c

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

This book tells the real-life horror story of states' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.

This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic stren