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Forensic Psychiatry

"Forensic Psychiatry" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Forensic Psychiatry" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Forensic Psychiatry" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 117 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2001 and 2004
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.