Psychiatry related information on Criminal Law

• The Sequential Intercept Model provides a conceptual framework for communities to use when considering the interface between the criminal justice and mental health systems as they address concerns about criminalization of people with mental illness [1].
• Urine drug screens are used extensively in substance-abuse treatment, especially methadone maintenance treatment programs, as well as criminal-justice and clinical research settings [2].

High impact information on Criminal Law

• The author discusses the history of such psychiatric activity from Freud through the Alger Hiss prejury trial, its current status in terms of benefits to the criminal justice system, the legal and social questions it raises (e.g., the competing issue of the complainant's right to privacy), andthe court's restrictions on the psychiatrists [3].
• Just over half the identified total is accounted for by the direct costs falling to the NHS, local authorities, charities and the criminal justice system [4].
• RESULTS: Patients in the Connecticut study group had higher rates of cocaine-use disorder, more involvement in the criminal justice system, more homelessness, and were more likely to be from minority backgrounds [5].
• Situations in which the law has special relevance for people with epilepsy, those who work with them, and their clinicians are reviewed with special reference to the topics of driving, employment, duties of social carers, the clinician's everyday role, the responsibilities of researchers and epilepsy and the criminal law [6].
• The largest number of nonmedicolegal autopsies were received from the Department of Internal Medicine. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice Hospital contributed the largest number of medicolegal autopsies [7].

Biological context of Criminal Law

• Drug use, street crime, and sex-trading among cocaine-dependent women: implications for public health and criminal justice policy [8].

Associations of Criminal Law with chemical compounds

• It is also suggested that available treatments such as methadone maintenance be used by the criminal justice system for referrals [9].
• In general, students in these schools had been judged to be at risk for drug problems by school administrators and by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority [10].
• To date, no studies have examined Ecstasy use among criminal justice populations [11].
• Stalker profiles with and without protective orders: reoffending or criminal justice processing [12]?
• We categorised 11 cases as product liability and nicotine addiction, two as health care reimbursement, and two as criminal law and secondhand smoke [13].

Gene context of Criminal Law

• The diagnosis of MS is similar to a scientific discovery, whereas the diagnosis of FS is constructed more like criminal law [14].
• This article reviews the changes that have been made in England and Wales by Part IV of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 to the powers conferred on the police by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to take and to retain for statistical purposes intimate and non-intimate samples from suspects [15].
• The Task Force found that criminal justice agencies and the courts performed poorly in this area [16].
• This exploratory study compares 34 male and 26 female meth dealers (N = 60) who were involved in the same criminal justice system of a single western state during the same time period [17].
• METHODS: Medline, ERIC, PsycINFO, Criminal Justice Periodicals Index, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Sociofile were searched [18].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Criminal Law

• In the 1990s, the Supreme Court has decided several cases that have had an impact on psychiatry and psychiatric patients in the criminal justice system, on psychiatric hospitalization, and on psychotherapist-patient privilege [19].

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