+ Forensic Psychiatry

Insanity
Diminished capacity and actuality
Criminal competencies (plead, stand trial, sentencing, post-conviction matters)
Civil competence (contracts, finances, need for guardianship or conservatorship)
Capital sentencing
Sentencing mitigation
Contested plea bargains
Violence risk assessment
Mass murder
Serial murder
Assassination
Homicide
Sexual homicide
Filicide
Infanticide
Bank robbery
Stalking and threats
Intimate partner violence
Hate crimes and cults
Arson and bombing
War crimes
Torture (including psychological torture)
White collar crime
Violence and the media
Brain damage and crime
Psychopathy
Sex offenses (e.g., sadistic homicide, necrophilic homicide, rape, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, peeping, indecent exposure) and paraphilias (e.g., sexual sadism, sexual masochism, necrophilia, pedophilia, exhibitionism, transvestic fetishism, fetishism)
Sexually violent predators/sexually dangerous persons
Chemical castration
Child pornography
Transgender treatment
Sexual-orientation therapy
Sexual reassignment surgery
False allegations
False confessions
Premises liability and negligent security
Foreseeability of crime and deterrence of offenders
Crime scene assessment
Profiling unidentified offenders
Psychiatric autopsies
Elder abuse and exploitation
Undue influence
Testamentary capacity
Suicide and self-harm
Mental and emotional damages
Effects of trauma
Toxic torts
Fitness for duty evaluations (health care professionals, public safety officers, employees)
Negligent hiring and supervision
Wrongful termination
Sexual harassment
Workplace threats and violence
School, college, and university bullying, threats, and violence
Psychiatric malpractice
Ethical standards in mental health practice
Sexual misconduct by professionals
Impaired professionals (physicians, psychologists, dentists, lawyers, clergy, financial professionals)
Professional misconduct (physicians, psychologists, dentists, lawyers, clergy, financial professionals)
Psychiatric diagnosis
Psychosis
Mood disorders
Anxiety disorders
Personality disorders
Drugs and alcohol intoxication
Addiction
Factitious illness (Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen by proxy, factitious victimization)
Claims of multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, or satanic ritual abuse
Malingering
Mental disability
Psychopharmacology (benzodiazepines, neuroleptics, second generation antipsychotics/atypicals, antidepressants, mood stabilizers and lithium)
Cultural aspects of mental disorder
Correctional psychiatry and psychology
Conditions of confinement
Quality of care
Involuntary treatment/forced medication
Involuntary hospitalization/civil commitment
Police psychiatry
Suicide by cop
Interviewing

+ Child & Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry

Child and adolescent forensic psychiatrists are also trained in adult psychiatry and may handle the full range of topics covered by forensic psychiatrists. In addition, they have specialized expertise regarding:

Mental disorders in children and adolescents
Interviewing children and adolescents
Children as witnesses
Effects of child sexual abuse
False allegations by children
Child custody, divorce, adoption, and foster care
School, college, and university bullying, threats, and violence
Juvenile offenders
Juvenile adjudicative competence
Competence to confess
Criminal responsibility
Conduct disorder
ADHD
Autism spectrum disorders
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Juvenile waivers to adult court
Juvenile justice
Termination of parental rights
Adoption
Foster care

+ Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatric forensic psychiatrists are also trained in general adult psychiatry and may handle the full range of topics covered by forensic psychiatrists. In addition, they have specialized expertise regarding:

Mental disorders of elders
Evaluation of dementia
Elder abuse and exploitation
Undue influence
Testamentary capacity
Contractual capacity
Donative capacity
Evaluation of need for guardianship or conservatorship
Contested guardianships/conservatorships
Guardianship authority for DNR/DNI/end of life issues
Quality of care in nursing homes and assisted living facilities
Interviewing elders

+ Forensic Pathology

Cause of death
Manner of death (natural, accident, suicide, homicide, undetermined)
Homicide
Suicide
Accidental death
Natural death
Autopsy
Exhumation
Drugs and alcohol
Death in custody
Officer-involved shootings
Crime scene evaluation, analysis, and reconstruction
Wound interpretation
Medical malpractice
Wrongful death
Pain and suffering
Life expectancy

+ Forensic Neurology

Neurological disorders
Neurological disability
Brain imaging
Incompetence based on neurological disorders
Insanity, diminished capacity, and other defenses based on neurological disorders
Brain damage and crime
Sleep disorders and crime
Seizure disorders and crime
Fitness for duty evaluations
Malpractice in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders

+ Correctional Medicine

Conditions of confinement
Jail and prison medical services

+ Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychologists cover nearly the same range of issues as forensic psychiatrists, with the exception of psychopharmacology. In addition, they have specialized expertise in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of psychological tests and the related field of psychometrics.

+ Forensic Neuropsychology

Forensic neuropsychologists are also forensic psychologists and may handle the full range of topics covered by forensic psychologists. In addition, they have specialized expertise regarding:

Neuropsychological testing
Head injury
Traumatic brain injury
Organic brain disease
Brain damage and crime
Intellectual disability, including Atkins cases
Capital sentencing and mitigation evaluations

+ Forensic Social Work

Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Elder abuse and exploitation
Foreseeability of abuse
Standard of care in youth organizations
Standard of care in child care facilities
Standard of care in adult care facilities
Standard of care in elder care facilities
Foster parents and foster care placement
Mitigation evaluations
Intimate partner violence
Social work malpractice
Ethical standards in social work practice

+ Forensic Nursing

Sexual assault examinations
Intimate partner violence
Child abuse
Nursing malpractice
Ethical standards in nursing practice
Conditions of confinement
Quality of care

+ Criminal Behavior & Interviewing

Interviewing, interrogation, and investigation
Crime scene assessment
Behavioral reconstruction
Violence risk assessment
Homicide and other violent crimes
Stalking and threats
Intimate partner violence
Hate crimes and cults
Arson and bombing
Serial offenses
False allegations
Polygraphy
Premises liability and negligent security
Foreseeability of crime and deterrence of offenders
Profiling unidentified offenders
Workplace threats and violence
School, college, and university bullying, threats, and violence
Officer-involved shootings

+ Security

Premises liability
Negligent security
Negligent hiring and supervision
Wrongful termination
Sexual harassment
Workplace threats and violence
School, college, and university bullying, threats, and violence
Interviewing, interrogation, and investigation
Arson and bombing
Product tampering
Product diversion
Standard of care for security management
Standard of care for security planning
Standard of care for crisis management
Background screening

Counterfeiting

+ Pharmacology & Toxicology

Alcohol
Drugs
DUI
Distribution, excretion, and absorption of toxicants
Psychoactive drugs
Pesticides
Metals
Solvents and vapors
Radiation and radioactive materials
Animal toxins
Plant toxins
Food additives and contaminants
Air pollutants
Industrial toxicology

+ Attorney Expert Witnesses

Prosecutorial misconduct
Advisory services for prosecutors
Legal malpractice
Advisory services for civil litigators