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Health Occupations > Medicine > Forensic Medicine > Forensic Psychiatry
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Criminology > Forensic Sciences > Forensic Medicine > Forensic Psychiatry
Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Forensic Psychiatry
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Forensic Psychiatry
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychiatry > Forensic Psychiatry
Health Occupations > Medicine > Psychiatry > Forensic Psychiatry

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Forensic Psychiatry  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Jurisprudence, Psychiatric
  • Psychiatric Jurisprudence

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 69; was JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC 1967-68; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION was see under FORENSIC DENTISTRY & FORENSIC MEDICINE 1965-74, was heading 1963-64

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005555

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