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forensic psychiatry
1. The use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law to determine legal insanity.
2. Psychiatry in its legal aspects including criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, the psychiatrist's role in compensation cases, the problems of releasing information to the court, and of expert testimony.
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