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Author Jackson, Mark, 1959-

Title New-born child murder : women, illegitimacy and the courts in eighteenth-century England / Mark Jackson
Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996

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 MELB  KN 176.3007 A1 Jac/Nbc  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The generation of suspicion: single women, bastardy and the law -- 3. Examining suspects: conflicting accounts of pregnancy, birth and death -- 4. Examining bodies: medical evidence and the coroner's inquest -- 5. Virtuous or vicious: conflicting accounts of accused women -- 6. Evidence in court: the verdicts of inquest, grand and trial juries -- 7. Single, women, bastardy and the law: the decline and fall of the 1624 statute
Analysis England
Murder History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-198) and index
Subject Children -- Crimes against -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Filicide -- England -- History.
Filicide -- Great Britain -- History.
Illegitimacy -- England -- History.
Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Illegitimacy -- Great Britain -- History.
Infanticide -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Medical jurisprudence -- England -- History.
Medical jurisprudence -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Medical jurisprudence -- Great Britain -- History.
Unmarried mothers -- England -- History.
Unmarried mothers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Unmarried mothers -- Great Britain -- History.
Infanticide -- history.
Illegitimacy -- history.
Jurisprudence -- history.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
LC no. 96016161
ISBN 0719046076
9780719046070