Unwilling mothers, unwanted babies : infanticide in Canada /
"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 uniformi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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