This study estimated the associations between three categories of recent community
criminal justice (CJ) involvement (arrest, parole, and probation) and suicide attempts, while …

Forensic evaluators often assess patients who lack insight into their mental illnesses. This
lack of insight can have a significant impact on the defendant’s ability to make legal strategy …

Background The number of older adults on parole and probation is growing at an unprecedented
rate, yet little is known about the mental health needs and treatment utilization patterns …

In Ohio, a criminal defendant is incompetent to stand trial only if" a present mental condition"
renders him unable to understand the nature and objectives of the proceedings against him …

Forensic psychiatry operates at the interface of two disparate disciplines: law and psychiatry.
Although most cases in forensic psychiatry practice engender no signicant con-icts, …

Methods A legal search of all state and federal criminal cases was performed by using the
following search terms to query LexisNexis for cases involving prescription medications (with …

Common law has a dictum that people must not benefit from their crimes. In years past, states
have enacted slayer rules to prevent killers from inheriting from their victims. The specific …

A recent Washington State case revisits the obligation of mental health clinicians to protect
third parties from the violent acts of their patients. Although the case of Volk v DeMeerleer …

All psychiatrists have expertise in the eld of psychiatry, but the mere act of testifying does
not mean the psychiatrist is an expert witness. ere are two types of witnesses: fact (percipient) …

Editor, There are more than two million people incarcerated in the United States (1). With the
spread of the novel SARS-CoV-2 strain of coronavirus (COVID-19), there has been recent …