Manuscripts prepared in accordance with Guide for authors should be sent to the editor-in-chief or to one of the national editors. Submission of articles Official journal of the Danish, the Norwegian and the Swedish societies for forensic medicine. The journal will publish original articles, review articles, preliminary communications, letters to the editor and case reports in the different dis...

Forensic psychiatry became officially recognized as a subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties on September 17, 1992, under the designation of "Added Qualification in Forensic Psychiatry." The historical roots wind through extended time in the complicated interplay of psychiatry and the law. A recognized need for special education, training, and experience, with the assurance o...

Introduction Presentation of the HoNOS-Secure French Version, an Outcome Measure for Users of Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services Eytan A*1, Golay D2, Della Polla S2, Hofer F2, Sillitti F2 and Gex-Fabry M3 1Division of General Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland 2Division of Penitentiary Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland 3Division of Ps...

Discussions about the prediction of dangerousness, a legal or social construct, often extend beyond forensic psychiatry into the general practice of psychiatry. Dangerousness can drive the entrance to and exit from the mental health and forensic system. Better conceptualized as risk prediction, it has been seen as a core skill for forensic psychiatry and an increasing requirement for general ps...

On April 22 and 23, 2010, the Law and Psychiatry Division of the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry hosted a tribute to Howard V. Zonana, MD, to acknowledge his contributions to forensic psychiatry in scholarship, teaching, ethics, policy development, and clinical work. In the tradition of a Festschrift, forensic scholars, faculty, and former and current fellows demonstrated Dr. Z...

Several organizations have developed guidelines to help authors and editors of medical journals negotiate ethics dilemmas in publishing, but very little is known about how these guidelines translate to the context of forensic psychiatry. In this article, we explore the important topic of ethics in forensic psychiatry publishing. First, we review the historical development of ethics principles i...

Ethical dilemmas in forensic psychiatry have not, on the whole, been exposed to the same degree of scrutiny as other medical topics in the medical ethical literature. In this editorial, I will hope to show that forensic psychiatric practice raises many ethical dilemmas; not only practical, but also conceptual. Indeed the level of public debate following the publication of the Fallon report and ...

The rate of change in scientific knowledge and the growing psychiatric sophistication of attorneys and courts have made it increasingly difficult for forensic psychiatrists to retain proficiency in the full spectrum of potential professional activities. As the consumers of forensic services become more sophisticated, forensic psychiatrists have an increasing need to become scientifically inform...