Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure

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A case study of how public policy about reproduction and crime is made. Author Laura E. Gomez uses secondary research and first-hand interviews with legislators and prosecutors to examine attitudes toward the criminalization and/or medicalization of drug use during pregnancy by the legislature and criminal justice systems in California. A timely work, applicable not only to California, but every state.