2. What is a Mental Health Expert? -A Mental health expert is a professional that provides services for matters including forensic psychology and psychiatry, mental conditions, diseases, and disorders, the psychological roots of behavior and criminal conduct, memory and perception, mental competence, suicide and violent behavior.

3. What Kind of Evidence Do They Look at? The nature of evidence is primarily the first-hand psychological examination of the individuals involved- -through clinical interviews as well as psychological test assessment. The tests include, clinical mental health evaluations, and appropriate interpretation of a person’s history as it pertains to a crime. One of the most helpful of a persons history is their behavioral patterns which can prevent future crime and help indentify one who is guilty.

4. What Type of Degree Do They Need? The most important credential one needs is a license issued by your state(s) of practice. To get this, you must pass a rigorous exam. To qualify to sit for this exam, you must have a certain number of supervised hours. To get those hours, you must first have a doctoral degree--Ph. D., or Psy. D., e.g.

5. Mental Health Expert Dr. Klein Background Information Dr. Norman R. Klein is a licensed psychologist providing clinical and forensic psychology services throughout the New York, Westport Connecticut, and Massachusetts tri- state area. Clinical services include: psychotherapy and counseling for issues of depression, stress, anxiety; marital/family/couples therapy for individual adults and adolescents. He provides expert witness services to attorneys and courts addressing forensic psychology evaluations related to: standard practice/malpractice; psycho-diagnosis; proximate cause/pain and suffering; civil court and criminal court competencies; family court/child custody issues; and insanity.

6. Mental Health Expert Dr. Klein Educational Background Norman R. Klein, Ph.D. has been in private practice in New York and Westport Connecticut as a clinical and forensic psychologist for more than twenty-five years. Dr. Klein has taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Fordham University, Manhattanville College, Fairfield University, and the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. A contributor to such publications as Psychological Reports and the Journal of Forensic Science, he received both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University after earning his B.A. from Syracuse University.

7. Case Study http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5216836.stm UK experts studied 13 years of data from Sweden (1988-2000) 18% of murders and attempted murders were committed by people with a mental illness. 5.2% of all violent crimes over the period were committed by people with severe mental illness 15.7% of arsons were committed by mentally ill people 7.5% of threats and harassments 7% of cases of assaulting an officer 6.3% of aggravated assaults 5% of sexual offences 3.6% of robberies 3% of common assaults

8. Citations http://www.hgexperts.com/article.asp?id=4794 http://www.normankleinphd.com/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5216836.stm