FREE NOBODYS CHILD PDF Michael Seed,Noel Botham | 287 pages | 02 Jun 2008 | John Blake Publishing Ltd | 9781844545889 | English | London, United Kingdom Sale | Clothing | Nobody's Child Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. A three-year-old boy dies, having apparently fallen while trying to reach a bag of sugar on a high shelf. His grandmother stands accused of second-degree murder. Psychologist Susan Nordin Vinocour agrees to evaluate the defendant, to determine whether the impoverished and mentally ill woman is competent to stand trial. Vinocour soon finds herself pulled headlong into a series of difficult questions, beginning with: Was the defendant legally insane on the night in question? As she wades deeper into the story, Vinocour traces the legal definition of insanity back nearly two hundred years, when our understanding of the human mind was in its infancy. With passion, clarity, and heart, Vinocour examines the troubling intersection of mental health issues and the law. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Nobody's Childplease sign Nobodys Child. Lists Nobodys Child This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Mar 19, Vonda rated it really liked it. Susan Vinocour did Nobodys Child outstanding job with this case and breaking it down so the common layman understood it. A forensic psychologist she took a case dealing with a 3 year olds death. The child was forced on his grandmother by child services. She told them in no uncertain terms she was unable to take care of the child mentally or physically. Nobodys Child daughter, the child's mother had a mental breakdown and the grandmother had no choice. The grandmother is mentally slow, a teacher saying she had the me Susan Vinocour did an Nobodys Child job with this case and breaking it down so the common layman understood it. The grandmother is mentally slow, a Nobodys Child saying she had the mental capacity of a potted plant, and the child never sleeps, is always in trouble. When the child falls and dies is the mentally incapacitated grandmother responsible? A deep, heartbreaking investigation into does this indigent, mentally ill woman deserve the insanity defense or jail? View all 6 comments. Jan 31, Kinsey rated it really liked it. Wide in scope but heartbreaking in intimacy, Nobody's Child details a Nobodys Child the Vinocour - a forensic psychologist - worked on involving the death of a three year old boy. With his grandmother Nobodys Child bars for his death, Vinocour details the fascinating history of the insanity plea in both ancient and Nobodys Child courts, and the ways that compos mentis has changed throughout history. With heartbreaking Nobodys Child with the grandmother and a detailed reenactment of the trial, Vincour has written someth Wide in scope but heartbreaking in intimacy, Nobody's Child details a case the Vinocour - a forensic psychologist - worked on involving the Nobodys Child of a three year old boy. With heartbreaking Nobodys Child with the grandmother Nobodys Child a detailed reenactment of the trial, Vincour has written something that is difficult but necessary to read: a castigation of the law and the way it treats the mentally ill, mentally Nobodys Child, and the poor. Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion. TW: child abuse, child death, sexual abuse of Nobodys Child at-risk adult I am glad I read this but not for the reasons you think. Author is a Nobodys Child and PsyD who does forensic evals for courts. The writing is so so, personal child abuse background should not have been included, more interesting talking about the legal stuff than the psychology stuff. But the shocking part is so inadvertent - Nobodys Child there is so much woo in the forensic psychology world. It's like watching someone do phrenology and determine people's fate that way. It was sickening to read, though not for the reasons intended by the author. May 10, Alexis rated it it was amazing Shelves: lawmental-illnesspsychology. This was heartbreaking and enraging. The author has worked both as a lawyer and as a forensic psychologist, and her dual background makes this book possible. It's the story of both a single trial--of a black woman accused of abusing and killing her Nobodys Child of the insanity defense, which is widely misunderstood. The defendant's story is one of incredible systemic failure on the part of multiple agencies. Raymie died not just because of either his grandmother's actions or an accident, but be This was heartbreaking and enraging. Raymie died not just because of either his grandmother's actions or an accident, but because authorities had repeatedly failed to notice or provide support for a family that Nobodys Child failing--generations of abuse, poverty, mental illness, and intellectual disability. He was sent to live with a grandmother who warned CPS Nobodys Child she was not able to take care of him because of the needs of her other children. We often hear, these days, about CPS overinvolvement in the lives of families of color. But CPS also has repeatedly failed to intervene in cases where lives were at risk, and this was one such case. The legal system, especially since Reagan's crusade against the insanity defense following his shooting by Hinckley, has been tilted against defendants with mental illness. The public misunderstands the insanity defense, thinking it's used far more often than it is, that it lets defendants off the hook, and that a defendant may, after being declared not guilty by reason of insanity, walk out of a hospital shortly after. I know someone who has worked in forensic psychiatric hospitals; they are not pleasant places. Vinocour does an interesting job of explaining the history of the defense and the legal differences between knowing an action is wrong, and understanding it. The system is also tilted against poor defendants, especially those of color. The combination is the perfect storm of injustice. But it's an absorbing and well written story. What's your defense? How do you wish to plea? When a young man -grandson- of Dorothy Dunn is found dead inside her home everyone begins to question everything. From her ability to understand right from wrong, to her motives, to the autopsy results, and the family connections Nobodys Child past disturbances in the home. Everything is scrutinized, examined, dissected and what results is the ultimate question of the Insanity defense and what is needed for a solid conviction of murder. As a Master in Nobodys Child ju What's your defense? As a Master in criminal justice we studied this topic of Mens Rea extensively and I found the past cases the most interesting with the crimes codes being discussed. Each individual case that led to this point, the fact of external v internal factors nature v nature and many Nobodys Child were discussed. The fact that the length of time the boy remained in that state was alarming, not to mention her other kids that all Nobodys Child mental illness, behavioral, or criminal histories. Need intent to injure, need to show the intent to cause bodily Nobodys Child, need to show she knew the consequences of such actions. This was a rough and tough one to read through as it was heartbreaking especially for the one daughter who truly seemed to want a connection and a belief that her mother was normal on so many levels. Just heartbreaking. May 05, Lisa rated it it was ok. The actual execution of the book, Nobodys Child, in terms of its persuasive Nobodys Child and writing level, is less successful than its lofty and honestly, noble-minded goals. I started the book riveted to the case study that makes up the bulk of the frame narrative, but gradually lost interest in the book entirely as the story was bogged down by a series of contextual history lessons that neither particularly Nobodys Child the case at hand nor contributed greatly to my understanding of a complicated psycholegal concept. Indeed she was—to await trial for the second-degree murder of her young charge. Nobodys Child author, a former lawyer herself, attempts to interweave chapters on the history of this term and its evolution, from the middle ages to the present, with chapters of somewhat straightforward reportage of the Dunn case and its progression through Nobodys Child legal system. Vinocour provides historical background in these alternating chapters in much the dry, pedantic way a poorly written literature review at the beginning of a research paper would. The information is synthesized from a variety of historical sources and cases and presented as evidence for the everchanging nature of the legal definition of insanity—from whether or not the defendant had a guilty mind to whether or not the accused party could tell right from wrong to whether the criminal could tell Nobodys Child they were doing while committing the crime, etcetera. As is, these chapters grind the momentum of the book to a halt at times, and felt both stale and drawn-out. An admittedly overworked, underfunded system that was ostensibly designed to Nobodys Child children, support caregivers, and keep families together in the end did none of those things for Dorothy Dunn and her family.