Mark Jackson.

Mark Jackson, ed Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child homicide and Concealment, 1550-2000. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. 2002 Pp Xiii, 293 $8495 ISBN 0-7546-0318-0

The history of infanticide shows scope for study from a range of perspectives--shifting form relative to sex and social norms affecting the incidence and prosecution of infanticide; political significance of the charge in different times and places; sense and operation of infanticide legislation; and medical versus moral interpretations of child killing, to name no other than a few. Mark Jackson's edited body provides an ...

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