1 Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK 2 NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK 3 Natbrainlab, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, Lond...

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In 2005, the Chief Coroner of Ontario instituted a review into 45 cases of criminally suspicious child deaths about which a prominent pediatric forensic pathologist had expressed an opinion that the cause was homicide. Subsequently, a provincial inquiry was called to review the practice and oversight of pediatric forensic pathology in Ontario and to make recommendations to restore and enhance p...

In a world that is becoming more interconnected, forensic psychiatrists can learn a great deal from the study of comparative forensic psychiatry. Comparative forensic psychiatry is difficult because we are separated not only by different legal systems and forensic concepts but often by language. Comparative forensic psychiatry has the potential not only to inform discussion between forensic psy...

Forensic practice fees, billing, and collection procedures are quite different from those in general psychiatry. Most forensic practices have far fewer "clients," and individual bills are usually larger. Collections are usually better (and less frequently discounted) in forensic practice, and resolving billing disputes is far more straightforward. Medicare, Medicaid, other insurance coverage, p...

background: suicide is one of the leading factors of death worldwide. hanging is one of the most common methods of suicide. this study was designed to evaluate post mortem toxicology laboratory findings of subjects with hanging death in northeast iran.  methods: this study was carried out on reported cases with hanging death to razavi khorasan province-general office of iranian legal medicine o...

This study outlines current trends in the education of psychiatric residents in forensic psychiatry. As general psychiatrists are more frequently confronted with issues pertaining to psychiatry and the law, residency training in these areas becomes increasingly important. In order to study the educational experience of psychiatric residents in forensic psychiatry, a survey was sent to all resid...

About 20 years ago, Dr. Alan Stone stunned forensic psychiatrists when he delivered the text of “The Ethics of Forensic Psychiatry: A View from the Ivory Tower” to an annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. In his remarks, he first questioned the coherence of the intellectual underpinnings of the ethics of forensic psychiatry. He then expressed grave misgivings about t...

Forensic psychiatry is a developing superspeciality in India and other SAARC countries. After a brief historical review, the paper describes the current status of forensic psychiatry in India and compares it with the development in this field in Europe and America. It takes the stock of current scenario in three different areas viz., i) legal and clinical ii) teaching and training and Hi) resea...