"Canada's most notorious bad mother": The newspaper coverage of the Jordan Heikamp inquest

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-232

  Robson, Krista ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 24144443243     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2005.tb02462.x     Document Type: Review

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