Chapter 33.4, Problem 1QTC

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The basis of infanticide to be used as the defense in human court cases where stepfather kills a stepchild.

Given:

The biological basis for infanticide has been found by the scientists.

Introduction:

Parental infanticide searches have found that mothers are way more likely than fathers to be perpetrator for neonaticide and slightly more likely to commit infanticide in general. In English law, infanticide is labeled as a distinct offense by infanticide acts. It is defined as the killing of the childless than12 months of age by any of their parents.