PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Rappeport, JR TI - Thirty years and still growing DP - 1999 Jun 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 273--277 VI - 27 IP - 2 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/27/2/273.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/27/2/273.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1999 Jun 01; 27 AB - In the 30 years since the founding of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in 1969, there has been a tremendous growth in the organization as well as in the number of psychiatrists who have a subspecialty of forensic psychiatry. In an attempt to explain this exponential growth, the author looks at the many social, economic, medical, and legal activities that were active during these years.