1. 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: The Law in Context Karen Brennan (University of Essex UK) and Emma Milne (Durham University, UK) Part I: The Infanticide Act in Practice 2. Manslaughter, Concealment of Birth and Infanticide, 1900-37 Rachel Dixon (University of Hull, UK) and Tony Ward (Northumbria University, UK) 3. Infanticide and Diminished Responsibility – Reviewing the Relationship Ronnie Mackay (De Montfort University, UK) Part II: Understandings, Misunderstanding and Questions of Principle 4. ‘Sometimes the Worst Happens’: Newspaper Reportage of Infanticide and the Law in England and Wales Since 1922 Daniel JR Grey (University of Hertfordshire, UK) 5. Myths and Moral Agency: A Principled Approach to Infanticide Law Helen Howard (Teesside University, UK) 6. The Infanticide Act 1938 as a Means to Provide Justice for Women against the Hardships and Harms of Pregnancy and Motherhood? Emma Milne (Durham University, UK) and Karen Brennan (University of Essex, UK) Part III: Criminal Justice Responses to Infanticide Beyond England and Wales 7. The Use and Non-Use of Infanticide Provisions in Australian Criminal Laws Arlie Loughnan (University of Sydney, Australia) 8. Capital Punishment and Infanticide Law in Ireland Lynsey Black (Maynooth University, Ireland) and David M Doyle (Maynooth University, Ireland) 9. Infanticide in Sweden - From Condemnation to (Too Much?) Consideration Maria Kaspersson (University of Greenwich, UK) 10 A Crazy Quilt: Infanticide in the United States Susan Ayres (Texas A&M University, USA)

Authors have expertise in legal history, doctrinal research, medico-legal analysis, and socio-legal studies from across the world to offer a holistic assessment of infanticide laws in England and Wales and from around the globe