Forensic Psychiatry Resources

Current issues

• Current issues
• Is expert testimony the practice of medicine?
• Changes to the Landmark Case list

How to do legal research

• VirtualChase Links for how to research issues and legal materials
• Law Library Resource Exchange An on-line journal about legal research
• Strategies for Online Legal Research by D. Botluk, in Law Library Resource Exchange
• Index of law reviews available online maintained by the Univ. of Southern California Law School

Legal resources

• FindLaw has a large database, including Supreme Court decisions since 1893. It also has a LawCrawler which searches other sites on the web.
• Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, with a wide variety of resources, including links to opinions of federal and state courts <
• FLITE Database of Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975
• U.S. Supreme Court Official site, opinions 1999-
• USSC+Commercial site about the US Supreme Court with some free services, particularly regarding recent opinions
• Hear Oral Arguments before the US Supreme Court

• Emory Law Library Electronic Reference Desk maintained by Emory University

• Hooper's links to state constitutions and court opinions

• The Law Society of England and Wales A comprehensive listing.
• CanLaw.net Canadian law.

• Lexis FREE service for recent cases
• Commercial legal research services now have credit card charge per search capabilities and some public services on the web
• Westlaw
• Lexis-Nexis

Government information and statistics

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• FBI
  • Uniform Crime Reports
• Justice Information Center (NCJRS)
• Justice Information Center (NCJRS): Juvenile Justice
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Statistics at the University of Michigan
• US National Information Infrastructure Virtual Library
• National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center - Justice Technology Information Network has a wide range of links for corrections and forensics.
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Books in forensic psychiatry

• Professional Books, Inc. sells professional books and displays books at the annual AAPL meetings.

Other professional organization web pages

• Academy of Organizational & Occupational Psychiatry
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Association for Technology in Psychiatry
• American Bar Association
  • ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
• American Medical Association
  • AMA position on expert testimony as practice of medicine
• American Psychiatric Association
  • APA Statements on Mental Illness and Violence
  • APA Position statements
  • Insanity Defense (1982)
  • Insanity Defense (joint AMA-APA position) (1985)
  • Assessing risk for violence (2001)
  • Juvenile death sentences (2001)
  • Moratorium on capital punishment (2000)
• American Psychoanalytic Association
• International Academy of Law and Mental Health
• InterPsych
• National Commission on Correctional Healthcare
• PsychLAW, the forensic psychology page of the American Psychological Association
• Society of Biological Psychiatry

Medical information sites with mental health information

• Medscape
• Medem

Access to the medical literature of the National Library of Medicine

• PubMed

Educational groups

• Program in Psychiatry and the Law (Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts Mental Health Center)

Computer resources

• American Association for Technology in Psychiatry
• Computer tips