Department of Psychiatry Faculty

Education
MB ChB, University of Edinburgh, 1981
MRCPsych, Uiversity of Edinburgh, 1989
MPhil (psychiatry), University of London, 1991
MPhil (criminology), University of Cambridge, 1993
MD, University of Edinburgh, 1996
PhD, University of Cambridge, 1996

Research Interest
1) I have published empirical research on the prediction of violence in psychiatric populations and theoretical work on the questionable usefulness of doing so.

2) Psychiatric jurisprudence is the philosophy of law as it applies to the mentally disordered. I have published empirical and theoretical research on the principles of criminal law as they apply to the mentally disordered and on the role of the assessment of "mental incapacity".

Area of Expertise:
Law and psychiatry

Achievements and Honors:
FRCPsych, 2005
Manuel Lopez-Rey Graduate Prize in Criminology, University of Cambridge, 1993
Annette Award, Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain, 1993
Dennis Hill Prize, Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, 1991
Mental Health Foundation Essay Prize, 1991

Publications of Note
The Receiver Operating Characteristic as a means of quantifying the contributions of different types of information to the prediction of criminal conviction British Journal of Psychiatry In the press

(A. Buchanan and M. Leese). Psychiatric evidence on the ultimate issue Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law In the press.

Assessment of mental capacity in individuals with mental illness: an inter-rater reliability study. British Journal of Psychiatry (2005) 187, 372-378 (R. Cairns, C. Maddock, A. Buchanan, A. David, P. Hayward, G. Richardson, G. Szmukler, M. Hotopf).

Prevalence and predictors of mental incapacity in psychiatric in-patients. British Journal of Psychiatry (2005) 187, 379-385 (R. Cairns, C. Maddock, A. Buchanan, A. David, P. Hayward, G. Richardson, G. Szmukler, M. Hotopf).

Descriptive diagnosis, personality disorder and detention Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (2005) 16, 538-551.

Criminal conviction after discharge from special (high security) hospital: the circumstances of early conviction on a serious charge Psychology, Crime and Law (2004) 10, 5-19 (A. Buchanan, P. Taylor and J. Gunn).

Mental capacity, legal competence and consent to treatment Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2004) 97, 415-20.

The prevalence of mental incapacity in medical in-patients and associated risk factors: cross-sectional study Lancet (2004) 364, 1421-27 (V. Raymont, W. Bingley, A. Buchanan, A. David, P. Hayward, S. Wessely and M. Hotopf).

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