1. Introduction -- 2. Criminal and civil law for the psychiatrist in England and Wales -- 3. Mental health and capacity laws including their administering bodies -- 4. Legal arrangements in the rest of the British Isles and Islands -- 5. Forensic psychiatry and its interfaces outside the UK and Ireland -- 6. Psychiatric reports for legal purposes in England and Wales -- 7. The psychosocial milieu of the offender -- 8. Genetic influences on antisocial behaviour, problem substance use and schizophrenia : evidence from quantitative genetic and molecular geneic studies -- 9. Violence -- 10. Disordered and offensive sexual behaviour -- 11. The majority of crime : theft, motoring and criminal damage (including arson) -- 12. Disorders of brain structure and function and crime -- 13. Offenders with intellectual disabilities -- 14. Psychosis, violence and crime -- 15. Pathologies of passion and related antisocial behaviours -- 16. Personality disorders -- 17. Deception, dissociation and malingering -- 18. Addictions and dependencies : their association with offending -- 19. Juvenile offenders and adolescent psychiatry -- 20. Women as offenders -- 21. Older people and the criminal justice system -- 22. Dangerousness -- 23. Principles of treatment for the mentally disordered offender -- 24. Forensic mental health services in the United Kingdom and Ireland -- 25. Offenders and alleged offenders with mental disorder in non-medical settings -- 26. Ethics in forensic psychiatry -- 27. Deviant and sick medical staff -- 28. Victims and survivors.