Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The book offers an in-depth examination of conviction outcomes in 14 criminal cases from England and Wales between 2010 and 2019, utilizing court transcripts. It applies feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm' to analyze the gender-specific responses of the criminal justice system to suspected infanticide, highlighting the complexities and biases inherent in these legal proceedings.
