Karen Brennan is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Evidence at the University of Essex, UK.Emma Milne is Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at Durham University, UK.

• 1. 100 Years of the Infanticide Act: The Law in ContextKaren Brennan (University of Essex UK) and Emma Milne (Durham University, UK)Part I: The Infanticide Act in Practice2. Manslaughter, Concealment of Birth and Infanticide, 1900-37Rachel Dixon (University of Hull, UK) and Tony Ward (Northumbria University, UK)3. Infanticide and Diminished Responsibility – Reviewing the RelationshipRonnie Mackay (De Montfort University, UK)Part II: Understandings, Misunderstanding and Questions of Principle4. ‘Sometimes the Worst Happens’: Newspaper Reportage of Infanticide and the Law in England and Wales Since 1922Daniel JR Grey (University of Hertfordshire, UK)5. Myths and Moral Agency: A Principled Approach to Infanticide LawHelen 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 Wales7. The Use and Non-Use of Infanticide Provisions in Australian Criminal LawsArlie Loughnan (University of Sydney, Australia)8. Capital Punishment and Infanticide Law in IrelandLynsey Black (Maynooth University, Ireland) and David M Doyle (Maynooth University, Ireland)9. Infanticide in Sweden - From Condemnation to (Too Much?) ConsiderationMaria Kaspersson (University of Greenwich, UK)10 A Crazy Quilt: Infanticide in the United StatesSusan Ayres (Texas A&M University, USA)

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.