PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
Emma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, funded by the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE), who are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). She researches women’s reproductive rights and reproductive justice. The focus of Emma’s PhD is on the responses by the English criminal justice system to women who are suspected of causing the death of their newborn children. The wider context of Emma’s work is a consideration of the criminal and social controls on all women based on their reproductive function.
Murder or infanticide? Understanding the causes behind the most shocking of crimes
Jun 30, 2017 17:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The murder of newborn baby Mia Kelly by her mother, Rachel Tunstill, was branded horrific, callous and brutal by police in Lancashire. Tunstill was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years after a...
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