forensic psychiatry

American  

noun

1. the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.

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Example Sentences

That’s because the field of forensic psychiatry is still relatively young.

From Seattle Times

Jill Colangelo, a visiting research affiliate at the University of Bern in the department of forensic psychiatry, is one of the experts trying to right the course.

From Slate

Assistant Prosecutor Kelly Collins disclosed that the state Center for Forensic Psychiatry has completed a report about the teen’s mental health status at the time of the shooting and whether he could be held criminally responsible.

From Seattle Times

Until Monday he had spent the past five years in a forensic psychiatry unit, which also cared for patients with criminal convictions.

From BBC

“You are putting me in a position where I have to ask, ‘Is this the sort of person that I can trust to teach medical students, residents, and forensic psychiatry fellows?’”

From New York Times