Taking a historical and criminological approach, this book places fatal and non-fatal violence against parents in the context of social development from the 1500s to contemporary society and provides global overview and comparison across the world.

Infanticide examines medical expert evidence in infanticide cases, focusing specifically on the shifting notion of ‘certainty’ in medical testimony.

Policing Suspicion is an innovative examination of policing practices and the impact of these on patterns of arrest and prosecution in London, 1780-1850.

This volume resents the first major study of the limits of criminological positivism in the West and establishes the subject as a field of interest and explores three comparative elements: the differing national experiences within the civil law world; differences and similarities between civil law and common law regimes.