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Table 1 Implementation in correctional psychiatry and in legal psychiatry of the four basic ethical principles of Beauchamp and Childress

From: Forensic psychiatry, one subspecialty with two ethics? A systematic review

 

Correctional psychiatry

Legal psychiatry

Beneficence

Care in the best patient’s interest

Impartiality

Respect for autonomy

Informed consent and respect of confidentiality

Informed consent

Justice

Equivalence of care

Qualifications

Non-maleficence

No participation to inhuman or degrading treatment or to death penalty