Description: The first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world.
Brief description: Dr Emma Milne is Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Durham University, UK. She is a socio-legal scholar and a feminist criminologist. Emma's research is interdisciplinary, focusing on criminal law and criminal justice responses to women who are considered to have broken the law. Emma's monograph Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother was published in 2021. She co-authored Sex and Crime (2020), and co-edited Women and the Criminal Justice System: Failing Victims and Offenders? (2018), The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women's Acts of Violence (2023), and Gendering Green Criminology (2023).
Review Quotes: "This work serves as a fascinating and thought-provoking overview of this curious corner of criminal law. More one for academic than practical interest, but eminently readable." --Law Society Gazette