[Current Status and Challenges of Forensic Psychiatry Research]

Area of Science:

• Forensic Psychiatry
• Psychiatry and Law
• Neuroscience
• Legal Medicine

Background:

• Forensic psychiatry integrates psychiatry and law for key tasks like criminal responsibility and violence risk assessment.
• Current research trends show increasing interdisciplinary integration within the field.
• Emerging technologies are being introduced to enhance objectivity in assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

• To explore the interdisciplinary integration in forensic psychiatry research.
• To highlight the impact of emerging technologies on assessment models.
• To identify challenges and future directions for forensic psychiatry.

Main Methods:

• Review of interdisciplinary research trends in forensic psychiatry.
• Analysis of the application of neuroimaging, AI, and big data in forensic identification.
• Examination of expanded research scopes including mental injury and special groups.

Main Results:

• Technological integration is shifting assessments from subjective experience to objective quantification.
• Research scope has broadened beyond criminal responsibility to violence risk and mental injury.
• Challenges include reliance on subjective methods, need for medical-legal integration, and ethical issues with new technologies.

Conclusions:

• Forensic psychiatry must enhance objectivity and precision in examination techniques.
• A comprehensive system integrating multimodal data and AI is needed.
• Strengthening scientific foundations and ethical norms is crucial for future development.