Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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OVERBURDENED AND UNDERSTAFFED: A NATIONAL MIXED-METHODS EXAMINATION OF CANADIAN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH AND FITNESS TO STAND TRIAL.

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It gives the reader the first current national baseline for Canadian forensic bed and fitness-assessment capacity, and a numerical anchor for arguing that demand is outpacing infrastructure in policy or expert-opinion contexts. It changes no clinician's obligations and no assertion an evaluator makes in a report, so it is a reference and advocacy resource rather than a practice development, and the low site response rate (17 of 40) limits how firmly the provincial comparisons can be pressed.

Int J Law Psychiatry. 2026;108:102230.