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A History of Infanticide in Britain c. 1600 to the Present

This work is an original and definitive contribution to the scholarship of crime history. It encompasses a large-scale study of infanticide over four centuries throughout the British Isles. It involved the analysis of an exhaustive collection of primary sources including all the extant judicial records in England, Wales and Scotland from 1600 to the year 2000. Other original printed material was also incorporated such as newspapers, broadside ballads, contemporary writings, parliamentary papers and royal commissions, as well as medico-legal professional publications. This ground-breaking monograph provides the authoritative empirical and historical analysis of the phenomenon of infanticide in the United Kingdom.