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Organized Crime In The New Millennium

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Postpartum Depression<br />

Postpartum depression (also known as post-natal depression) is recognized in some<br />

countries as a mitigating factor in cases of infanticide. According to Dr. Susan<br />

Friedman, "Two dozen nations have infanticide laws that decrease the penalty for<br />

mothers who kill their children of up to one year of age. <strong>The</strong> United States does not<br />

have such a law, but mentally ill mothers may plead not guilty by reason of insanity." <strong>In</strong><br />

the law of the Republic of Ireland, infanticide was made a separate crime from murder in<br />

1949, applicable for the mother of a baby under one year old where "the balance of her<br />

mind was disturbed by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving<br />

birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the<br />

child". Since independence, death sentences for murder in such cases had always been<br />

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