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The Final Report made numerous recommendations, including for reform of the psychiatric hospital system, of forensic psychiatry, and the insanity defence. One major recommendation has largely now been implemented - the setting up of secure psychiatric units in each region of the country.
It was established in 1990 as the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, obtaining its current name in 2003. [1] The editor-in-chief is Jenny Shaw (University of Manchester). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2018 impact factor of 0.942. [2]
She was Professor of Special Hospital Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London between 1995 and 2004. [2] She was a joint-founder of the academic journal Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health , and has been its joint-editor since its foundation in 1991.
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The Maudsley Hospital is the site of the institute's Clinical Neuroimaging Department. The Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences (CNS) is a joint venture of the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry and the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM). Completed in early 2004, the centre provides an interdisciplinary research environment.
Forensic psychiatry is a subspeciality of psychiatry and is related to criminology. [1] It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry. According to the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, it is defined as "a subspecialty of psychiatry in which scientific and clinical expertise is applied in legal contexts involving civil, criminal, correctional, regulatory, or legislative ...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom , and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental health problems.
Jeremy Coid is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Queen Mary University of London and East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.He is Director of the Violence Prevention Research Unit (VPRU) in the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and a participant in the WHO Violence Prevention Alliance.