Introduction

Forensic psychiatry is often defined as the field that employs psychiatric expertise for legal purposes and to achieve legal ends. In other words, forensic psychiatrists are experts in psychiatry who are consulted by the courts in order to shed the light of their expertise on problems the courts are trying to resolve. Accordingly, forensic psychiatrists (or forensic child and/or adolescent psychiatrists) are those individuals most likely to be involved at the interface of psychiatry and law.