Behavioral Sciences and the Law
British Journal of Criminology
British Journal of Delinquency
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Forensic Science International
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling
Legal & Criminological Psychology

The 2002 Mental Health Strategy For Women Offenders
Jane Laishes, Mental Health, Health Services, Correctional Service Canada, December 2002.

AIC: Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
This series of (hundreds of) publications from the Australian Institute of Criminology includes a number of publications of particular interest for mental health, a selection of which is listed below

Abuse of Older People: Crime or Family Dynamics?. T&I no. 113

The Elderly as Victims of Crime, Abuse and Neglect. T&I no. 37

Family Homicide in Australia [T&I no. 255]

Gambling in Australia. T&I no. 24

Mental Disorder and Homicide in Australia. T&I no. 133

Murder-Suicide in Australia Trends. T&I no. 82

Serial Murder. T&I no. 25

Social Factors in Suicide in Australia. T&I no. 52

The Spatial Clustering of Child Maltreatment. T&I no. 119

All In The Mind - 15 July2006 - The psychology of stalking
All In The Mind - 24 March2002 - In the Mind of the Psychopath
Transcripts and audios from All in the Mind, a series on ABC Radio National. Other programs can be found here

Antisocial Personality Disorder
A page of resources from Internet Mental Health.

Arson and Bushfires
Publications from the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Ashworth Special Hospital: Report of the Committee of Inquiry
This is the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Personality Disorder Unit, Ashworth Special Hospital presented to the British Parliament in January 1999.

Carpenter's Forensic Science Resources
This is part of the Tennessee Criminal Law Defense resources site. You will find a forensic psychiatry and psychology section, and many other specialist areas of interest.

The Community Order and the Mental Health Treatment Requirement
By Linda Seymour and Max Rutherford. Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, January 2008.

Changing the Outlook: A Strategy for Developing and Modernising Mental Health Services in Prisons
Published by the Department of Health, U.K., December, 2001

.Community-based Compulsory Treatment Orders in Scotland: The early evidence
By Simon Lawton-Smith. King's Fund, November 2006. This paper explores what happened in the first six months after community-based compulsory treatment orders were introduced in Scotland in October 2005. It looks at how many people have become subject to the orders, the pathways to being placed on an order, the impacts on mental health staff, and resource issues.

Criminal Justice: Home - Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Free full text of a number of reports on forensic mental health.

David Willshire's Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry Links
David Willshire is a specialist psychologist in clinical psychology and in forensic psychology who works in Victoria (Australia)

. Factors Underlying and Maintaining Nurses' Attitudes to Patients with Severe Personality Disorder
Final Report to the National Forensic Nurses' Research and Development Group, by Len Bowers, Linda McFarlane, Frank Kiyimba, Nicola Clark, and Jane Alexander. Department of Mental Health Nursing, City University, London, August, 2000.

Forensic Nursing Resource Homepage
This page is produced by Phil Woods, a lecturer in Nursing at the University of Manchester in the UK and a researcher in the Virtual Institute for Severe Personality Disorder (VISPED). Presently in the final stages of a PhD focused on the development of a behaviourally based instrument to assist in the risk assessment process he is collaborating in a European risk assessment project with the Dutch, German and Norwegian forensic services; and violence prediction research in Norway.

General and Forensic Psychiatry
A page maintained by Dr Pogos Voskanian, a forensic psychiatrist. It includes advice on the writing of medicolegal reports.

Health, Social Work and Related Services for Mentally Disordered Offenders in Scotland
Published by the Scottish Office in 1999

. Inspection of Social Care Services in High Security Hospitals: Broadmoor Hospital
This document is the report of the inspection of Broadmoor social care service which took place between 9-19 September 2003. Two inspectors carried out the inspection. The objective of the inspection was to evaluate the implementation of Government policy and guidance relating to the social care needs of patients in the high security hospitals.

International Experiences of Using Community Treatment Orders
By Rachel Churchill, Gareth Owen, Swaran Singh, and Matthew Hotopf. This report, published in March 2007, was undertaken by the Institute of Psychiatry who received funding from the Department of Health in the UK, and presents the findings from a systematic review of existing studies on Community Treatment Orders.

International Victimology Website
This site is described as "your gateway to victimology on the web". It certainly contains a wide array of resources, from databases to links, bulletin boards, and online documents and publications. Most of the material is in English, but the sources are international

.Intervening to Prevent Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Scoping Review
By Patricia Moran, and Ann Hagell. Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, September 2001 (Home Office Research Study 225)

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report
From the U. S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention (OJJDP), the 1999 National Report on Juvenile Offenders and Victims is described as "the most comprehensive source of information about juvenile crime, violence, and victimization and about the response of the juvenile justice system to these problems."

Look Who'stalking: Seeking a Solution to the Problem of Stalking
An article by Michael J Allen, from the Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, September 1996.

MacArthur Research Network on Mental Health and the Law
The Network aims to develop new knowledge about the relationships between mental health and the law, and to turn that understanding into improved tools and criteria for evaluating individuals and making decisions that affect their lives. Created by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation with a grant to the University of Virginia in 1988 the Network is directed by John Monahan.

Mandated Community Treatment: Beyond Outpatient Commitment
An article by John Monahan and others, published in Psychiatric Services 52: 1198-2005, 2001.

Medicine & Psychiatry Expert
Actually a forensic psychiatry page, run by Harold J Bursztajn, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, and co-Director, Program in Psychiatry & the Law, Harvard Medical School

.Mental Health and Criminal Justice : A Review of the Relationship Between Mental Disorders and Offending Behaviours and on the Management of Mentally Abnormal Offenders in the Health and Criminal Justice Services [CRC funded reports]
Prepared for the Criminology Research Council, by Paul Mullen, August 2001

. Methamphetamine Use and the Mental Health Expert Witness in Criminal-Forensic Contexts
By Harold V. Hall, Stuart B. Twemlow, and Sandra B. McPherson, A Special Report, of the Pacific Institute for the Study of Conflict and Aggression. January, 1999.

Myth and Reality: the Relationship Between Mental Illness and Homicide in New Zealand
By Alexander Simpson, and others. Health Research Council of New Zealand, August 2003.

Psychiatry and Law Updates
This page is described as "An Education and Communication Services for Forensic, Legal, and Judicial professionals". It is the work of William H. Reid, an American forensic psychiatrist.

Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Case of Diagnostic Confusion
Hare, Robert. Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Case of Diagnostic Confusion
Psychiatric Times February 1996, XIII(2)

Psychwatch: Forensic Page
Provides links to forensic organisations, journals, and other web sites of interest.

Recidivism of Sexual Assault Offenders: Rates, Risk Factors, and Treatment Efficacy
By Denise Lievore. A report prepared for the Office of the Status of Women, by the Australian Institute of Criminology, May 2004.

Rehabilitation and treatment of sex offenders
A collection of links from the Australian Institute of Criminology

. Report of the Review of Security at the High Security Hospitals
Report of the Review of Security at the High Security Hospitals. London, Department of Health, 2000 This is a report of the review of security at the three English high security (special) hospitals, Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton, undertaken by Sir Richard Tilt and the Review Team.

Review of Queensland Forensic Mental Health Services
Prepared by Paul Mullen and Karlyn Chettleburgh, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, 2002

.Review of Sexual Offender Treatment Programmes
Prepared for the High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board (HSPSCB) November 1998, by Derek Perkins, Sean Hammond, Dawn Coles, and Darren Bishop.

Review of Treatments for Severe Personality Disorders
By Fiona Warren and others. Produced by the Research Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office, London, 2003. Home Office Online Report 30/03.

Seminars in Practical Forensic Psychiatry
Edited by Derek Chiswick & Rosemarie Cope. Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1995. Serious Violent and Sexual Offenders. The Scottish Executive has a number of publications available on this topic

Report of the Committee on Serious Violent and Sexual Offenders (MacLean Report)
Laid before the Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Ministers, June 2000.
A Review of the Research Literature on Serious Violent and Sexual Offenders
By Clare Connelly and Shanti Williams. Scottish Executive Central Research Unit, 2000.

Risk Assessment and Management of Serious Violent and Sexual Offenders: A review of current issues
By Hazel Kemshall. Scottish Executive Social Research, 2002. The findings of the reviewt are summarised in Crime and Criminal Justice Research Programme Research Findings No.64/2002

Serious Violent and Sexual Offenders: The Use of Risk Assessment Tools in Scotland
By Gill McIvor, Hazel Kemshall, and Gill Levy. Scottish Executive Social Research, 2002. The report is summarised in Crime and Criminal Justice Research Programme. Research Findings No.65/2002

Serious Violent Offenders : Sentencing, Psychiatry and Law Reform
Proceedings of a conference held 29-31 October 1991, Melbourne. Edited by Sally-Anne Gerull and William Lucas. (Conference proceedings (Australian Institute of Criminology); no. 19)

Sex Offender Treatment Programs
From the John Howard Society of Alberta, 2002.

Stalking and Harassment in Scotland
By Sue Morris, and Simon Anderson, and Lorraine Murray. Scottish Executive Social Research, 2002. The findings of the report are summarised in Crime and Criminal Justice Research Programme Research Findings No.67/2002

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
An extensive slide show and information about this well known experiment conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University under the supervision of Philip G. Zimbardo and others. For Professor Zimbardo's web page click here.

The Treatment of Psychopathic and Antisocial Personality Disorders: A Review
By Jessica H Lee (Clinical Decision Making Support Unit, Broadmoor Hospital) 1999.

Without Conscience - Robert Hare's Web Site
Dr Robert Hare is an authority on the study of psychopathy and the author of the Psychopathy Checklist.

Without Consent: Confronting Adult Sexual Violence
Proceedings of a Conference held 27-29 October, 1992. Edited by Patricia Weiser Easteal. (Conference proceedings (Australian Institute of Criminology); no. 20)

Zeno's Forensic Site
Maintained by Zeno Geradts, who works at the Forensic Science Laboratory (Gerechtelijk Laboratorium van het Ministerie van Justitie) in The Netherlands, this page contains information on forensic science, forensic medicine and forensic psychiatry.