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Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies: Infanticide in Canada

by Kirsten Kramar
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May 2005
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English
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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 adoption of a draconian framework to deal with these cases.

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PublishedMay 24, 2005
ISBN-100774811765
ISBN-139780774811767
LanguageEnglish

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