ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 October 1977
Page Count: 7

Toward a Scientific Forensic Psychiatry
Dietz, PE
Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry, Center for Studies in Social-Legal Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pa.

(Received 22 February 1977; accepted 21 March 1977)

Abstract

Every discipline must occasionally take stock of where it has been and where it is going, and this is nowhere more important than in a field such as legal medicine in which the practitioners are scattered around the world and have various professional identities and allegiances. Elsewhere I have described the tripartite structure of American legal medicine and the educational implications of the fractionation of the discipline into three divisions focused on psychiatry, pathology, and jurisprudence [1]. The implications for research are analogous and are complicated by the additional problem of coordinating research in legal medicine with research in criminology and criminalistics.

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Paper ID: JFS10418J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10418J
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