- 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