This book provides in-depth discussions of the political and social contexts surrounding key cases in forensic mental health.
This book represents an important addition to the study tools and textbooks available related to psychiatry and the law and will serve as a useful reference for clinicians who must follow established legal requirements in their field.
While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.
The ethical role of mental health clinicians in sex offender programs. ... O'Shaughnessy R, Glancy G, Bradford J. Canadian landmark case, Smith v. Jones, supreme court of Canada: confidentiality ... J Forensic Leg Med 2009;16(2):93–6.
This volume is designed not only for psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and social workers, but also for lawyers, judges, correctional professionals and government policy specialists.
Designed to meet the needs of practitioners of forensic psychiatry, for residents in forensic psychiatry, and those preparing for the specialty examination in Forensic Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, this ...
This book fills that void, serving as one of the first to describe the current state of practice, capabilities and limitations, and to outline methods, standards of practice and expectations of the gait analyst as a forensic practitioner.
Many of the fellowship programmes have attorneys on the faculty and are affiliated with law schools in which mental health law or mental disability law is taught. The fellows are expected to know the landmark cases that are developed ...
HANDBOOK OF FORENSIC MEDICINE Edited by Burkhard Madea This book serves as a comprehensive, international handbook of forensic medicine.
This important work includes over three hundred state-of-the-art chapters, with articles covering crime-solving techniques such as autopsies, ballistics, fingerprinting, hair and fiber analysis, and the sophisticated procedures associated ...
The Court held to this opinion, even in light of evidence that mental health practitioners were incorrect in their ... Cormier, 1998) are now frequently used in clinical and forensic settings throughout the United States and Canada.