Crime and Psychiatry*

Psychiatry and crime are linked in certain ways. On one hand, we have criminal offenders with serious psychopathology; and on the other hand, we have psychiatric patients who may commit criminal offences during the influence of a psychiatric disorder. The psychiatrist in practice has to come in cont...

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Autores principales: Matcheswalla, Yusuf, De Sousa, Avinash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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BPS Presidential Address 2006
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25838733
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1229.153325
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description Psychiatry and crime are linked in certain ways. On one hand, we have criminal offenders with serious psychopathology; and on the other hand, we have psychiatric patients who may commit criminal offences during the influence of a psychiatric disorder. The psychiatrist in practice has to come in contact with the criminal justice system at some point of time in his career. Forensic psychiatry under whose realm these issues reside is a branch yet underdeveloped in India. The present paper reviews the inter-relationship between crime and psychiatry and the factors involved therein.
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spelling pubmed-43813092015-04-02 Crime and Psychiatry* Matcheswalla, Yusuf De Sousa, Avinash Mens Sana Monogr BPS Presidential Address 2006 Psychiatry and crime are linked in certain ways. On one hand, we have criminal offenders with serious psychopathology; and on the other hand, we have psychiatric patients who may commit criminal offences during the influence of a psychiatric disorder. The psychiatrist in practice has to come in contact with the criminal justice system at some point of time in his career. Forensic psychiatry under whose realm these issues reside is a branch yet underdeveloped in India. The present paper reviews the inter-relationship between crime and psychiatry and the factors involved therein. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4381309/ /pubmed/25838733 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1229.153325 Text en Copyright: © Mens Sana Monographs http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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