Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure

ISBN-13: 9781566395588 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 207 str.

Laura E. Gomez

Opis

Presents a case study of how public policy about reproduction and crime is made. This title uses secondary research and first-hand interviews with legislators and prosecutors to examine attitudes toward the criminalization and/or medicalization of drug use during pregnancy by the legislature and criminal justice system in California.