The course has the objective of developing the particular conceptual framework applicable to most of the problems in the field. As forensic psychopathology has a extraordinary wide range of factors that must be considered in the approach to the field in order to rational and systematic analysis of the variables involved in the evaluations. The course will be mainly focused on criminal forensic psychopathology, including competence to stand trial and to give informed consent, testimonial capacity, insanity defence, diminished capacity, sentencing considerations, social dangerousness, release of persons acquitted for insanity, and civil forensic psychopathology, including legal legislation of psychiatry, including  involuntary commitment, right to treatment and to refuse treatment, professional liability, ethical guidelines, selective incapacitation.