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Nobody's Child - A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense (Hardcover)
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Nobody's Child - A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense (Hardcover)
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When a three-year-old child was found with a head wound and other
injuries, it looked like an open-and-shut case of second-degree
murder. Psychologist and attorney Susan Vinocour agreed to evaluate
the defendant, the child's mentally ill and impoverished
grandmother, to determine whether she was competent to stand trial.
Even if she had caused the child's death, had she realized at the
time that her actions were wrong or was she legally "insane"? What
followed was anything but an open-and-shut case. Nobody's Child
traces the legal definition of "insanity" back to its inception in
Victorian Britain nearly two hundred years ago, from when our
understanding of the human mind was in its infancy, to today, when
questions of race, class, and ability so often determine who is
legally "insane" and who is criminally guilty. Vinocour explains
how "competency" and "insanity" are creatures of a legal system,
not of psychiatric reality, and how, in criminal law, the insanity
defense has to often been a luxury of the rich and white. Nobody's
Child is a profoundly dignified portrait of injustice in America
and a complex examination of the troubling intersection of mental
health and the law. When prisons are now the largest institutions
for the mentally ill, Vinocour demands that we reckon with our
conceptions of "insanity" with clarity, empathy, and
responsibility.
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