Author: The Stationery Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Keywords: commission, report, law, infanticide, manslaughter, murder
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0102943680
ISBN-13: 9780102943689

The Criminal Justice Act 2003, amongst other reforms, brought in a new sentencing regime for murder. However it rests on shaky foundations because the existing definitions of murder and its partial defenses remain misleading, out-of-date, unfit for purpose. For that reason, the Law Commission was given the remit to review the various elements of murder and partial defenses to it, and the relationship between the law of murder and the law relating to homicide (in particular manslaughter).

Authors:Carel P. van Schaik, Charles H. Janson,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: implications, males, infanticide
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2000-11-20
List price: $96.99
ISBN-10: 0521774985
ISBN-13: 9780521774987

Infanticide by males is relatively common in primates, carnivores, and rodents, although it tends to be rare even in species in which it occurs. Is this behavior pathological or accidental, or does it reflect a conditional reproductive strategy for males in certain circumstances? In this book, case studies and reviews confirm the adaptive nature of infanticide by males in primates, and help to predict which species should be vulnerable to this phenomenon. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the evolutionary consequences of the threat of infanticide by males for social and reproductive be

Author: Amanda Rees
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: field, science, art, primatology, controversy, infanticide
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-11-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0226707113
ISBN-13: 9780226707112

Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Identified in the 1960s as a phenomenon worthy of investigation, infanticide had, by the 1970s, become the focus of serious controversy. The suggestion, by Sarah Hrdy, that it might be the outcome of an evolved strategy intended to maximize an individual’s reproductive success sparked furious disputes between scientists, disagreements that have continued down to the present day.  Meticulously tracing the history of the infanticide debates, and drawing on e

Author: Margaret G. Spinelli
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: mothers, kill, perspectives, legal, psychosocial, infanticide
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 1585620971
ISBN-13: 9781585620975

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 a victim, too. The editor of this revealing work asks us to reach beyond rage, stretch the limits of compassion, and enter the minds of mothers who kill their babies-with the hope that advancing the knowledge base and stimulating inquiry in this neglected area of maternal-infant research will save young lives. Written to help remedy today’s dearth of up-to-date, research-based literature, this unique volume brings together a mult

Author: Anne Somerset
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: court, louis, xiv, satanism, infanticide, poisons, murder, affair
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-10-12
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0312330170
ISBN-13: 9780312330170

The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous executions resulted.The 1676 torture and execution of the Marquise de Brinvilliers marked the start of the scandal which rocked the foundations of French society and sent shock waves through all of Europe. Convicted of conspiring with her adulterous lover to poison her father and brothers in order to secur

Authors:Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, Reena Dube,
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: cultural, history, feminist, india, infanticide, female
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $86.50
ISBN-10: 0791463273
ISBN-13: 9780791463277

Female Infanticide in India is a theoretical and discursive intervention in the field of postcolonial feminist theory. It focuses on the devaluation of women through an examination of the practice of female infanticide in colonial India and the reemergence of this practice in the form of femicide (selective killing of female fetuses) in postcolonial India. The authors argue that femicide is seen as part of the continuum of violence on, and devaluation of, the postcolonial girl-child and woman. In order to fully understand the material and discursive practices through which the limited and loca