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Forensic Psychiatry
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Definition
: Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, the psychiatrist's role in compensation cases, the problems of releasing information to the court, and of expert testimony.
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Examples
Commitment of Mentally Ill
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Confidentiality
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Insanity Defense
Other names
Jurisprudence, Psychiatric; Psychiatry, Forensic; Psychiatric Jurisprudence