Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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MENTAL DISORDER IN THE COURTROOM: CHALLENGES FOR LEGAL PRACTICE IN LOW-RESOURCE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS FROM INDONESIA.

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It documents, in the field's own journal, how thin the procedural and training infrastructure for forensic psychiatry is in a large low-resource jurisdiction, which is useful context for anyone working on capacity-building or comparative forensic systems. It changes no doctrine, no evaluation practice and no evidentiary claim, and the nine-participant qualitative design supports description rather than inference; a practitioner outside Indonesia does nothing differently on Monday.

Int J Law Psychiatry. 2026;108:102254.