Open AccessCrime and Psychiatry
Author(s) -
Yusuf Matcheswalla,
Avinash De Sousa
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
mens sana monographs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0973-1229
pISSN - 1998-4014
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1229.153325
Subject(s) - commit , forensic psychiatry , realm , psychiatry , psychopathology , criminal justice , psychology , criminology , criminal responsibility , criminal psychology , criminal law , law , political science , database , computer science
Psychiatry and crime are linked in certain ways. On one hand, we have criminal offenders with serious psychopathology; and on the other hand, we have psychiatric patients who may commit criminal offences during the influence of a psychiatric disorder. The psychiatrist in practice has to come in contact with the criminal justice system at some point of time in his career. Forensic psychiatry under whose realm these issues reside is a branch yet underdeveloped in India. The present paper reviews the inter-relationship between crime and psychiatry and the factors involved therein.