PregnancyScientific EvidenceGenderRaceClassDrug UseLegislationChild WelfareThe state of Tennessee arrested a woman two days after she gave birth and charged her with assault of her newborn child based on her use of narcotics during her preg-nancy. Tennessee's 2014 assault statute was the first to...
Fetal and neonatal injury caused by maternal drug ingestion during pregnancy is rapidly becoming both a public health and criminal justice problem. There is widespread unanimity in the medical profession that using and abusing illicit drugs during pregnancy will likely result in a host of fetal and ...
Unwanted/unintended pregnancies are associated with poor prenatal care, greater smoking and drinking during pregnancy, lower birth weights and other injuries to life chances F. Given: 6% of any birth cohort commits 50% of that cohort‟s crimes; and abortion decreases the size of the cohort ...
Despite the absence of statutory criminalization of drug use during pregnancy in the majority of states, states are increasingly recognizing that drug abuse is a massive economic and social problem. Tennessee is the first state to implement a statute that specifically addresses the issue of pregnant...
Fetal and neonatal injury caused by maternal drug ingestion during pregnancy is rapidly becoming both a public health and criminal justice problem. There is widespread unanimity in the medical profession that using and abusing illicit drugs during pregnancy will likely result in a host of fetal and ...
We link pregnancy criminalization to legally cognizableanimus, observing that hallmark features of such animus abound when substance use during pregnancy is criminalized. We link environmental injustice to pregnancy criminalization, observing that it is irrational to punish and jail peopl...