Infanticide in Milan between 1862 and 1931. 65 executive judgements analysis

Abstract

Authors study infanticide during the age between the unification of Italy and the issue of Codice Rocco (1930), in particular around Milan. They introduce the evolution of Italian laws after 1861 and quote national legal statistics about infanticide between XIX and XX century; they particularly analyze 65 executive judgements pronounced by Corte d’Assise in Milan and Busto Arsizio that are kept in Archivio di Stato in Milan in volumes divided into years, and that were photographed and studied on digital images.
From data, authors drawn the situation in Milan characterizing infanticide and pointing on the author of the crime, the distribution in the country, the kind of injuries, the length of punishments.