One of the primary objectives in forensic psychiatry, distinguishing it from other psychiatric
disciplines, is risk management. Assessments of the risk of criminal recidivism are performed …

Insanity cases may attract a lot of media attention. The severity of the crimes and their nature
play an important role in this. The crimes tend to be strange, inexplicable, and shocking …

Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior, Second Edition is fully updated to include recent
research, studies, and publications examining the integration of the biological view with …

Neuroscience produces a wealth of data on the relationship between brain and behavior,
including criminal behavior. The research field studying the possible and actual impact of …

A 60 plus-year-old male was charged with pedophilia for forcing a child to touch him
inappropriately near a primary school fence. In another case, a 70 plus-year-old male was …

In the present manuscript, we comment upon a paper that strongly criticized an expert report
written by the consultants of the defense (two of the authors of the present paper, PP and …

Advances in psychiatric research and clinical psychiatry in the last 30 years have given rise
to a host of new questions that lie at the intersection of psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy …

The neuropsychiatric contribution to capital sentencing proceedings has grown substantially
in recent decades as the consideration of neurological and psychiatric factors in criminal …

Empirical findings demonstrate that neuroscientific expertise is increasingly prevalent in
courtrooms. This suggests that both “territorial conflicts” between law and neuroscience—for …

Neuroscience provides coaches with a compelling lens through which to view their
coachee's thoughts, feelings and behaviours. However, enthusiasm for integrating …