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In the book I aim to answer two questions: Firstly, why are children of defendant mothers who face separation from their mother as a consequence of criminal sentencing proceedings, treated differently to children who face separation from their parents by the state in the family court? Secondly, what are the implications of this differentiated treatment for wider society and for the state? In the introduction I set out the background to these questions and the structure of the book.
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Minson, S. (2020). Introduction. In: Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32738-5_1
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