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Thompson, CR: A Seat at the Table: President’s Address 2018. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 47(1):12-21, 2019

Wall BW, CR Thompson, Pinals DA, Ash P, Keram E (members of Update Task Force): AAPL Practice Resource for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, Update 2017. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, in press

Thompson CR: Legal Regulation of Psychiatric Practice (section ed.) in Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 3rd Edition. Edited by Rosner R and Scott CL, Abingdon, U.K., CRC Press, 2016

Fischer C, Thompson CR, Kambam P, Bender HE: Juvenile Adjudicative Competence. Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Edited by Levesque RJR. Chichester, U.K., Springer Publishing, in press

Thompson CR: Legal Regulation of Psychiatric Practice (Section Ed.) in Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 3rd Edition. Edited by Rosner R and Scott CL, Abingdon, U.K., CRC Press, in press

Thompson CR, Fischer C: Children: as Defendants in Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science. Edited by Jamieson A and Moenssens A. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015

Thompson CR: Robert Weinstock, M.D.: Elder Statesman of Forensic Psychiatry and Rebel With a Cause. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 42(1):20-5, 2014

Thompson CR, Reba-Harrelson L: Addictive Behaviors in Clinical Handbook of Adolescent Addiction. Edited by Rosner R. Chichester, U.K., Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2013

Thompson C (Chair), Heiser M, Chan V, Damerla H, Holloway R (The Cannabis White Paper Task Force): The Impact of Cannabis Use During Adolescence: A Report to the California Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012

Freeman BW, Thompson C, Jaques C: Forensic Aspects and Assessment of School Bullying in Forensic Psychiatry edition of Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Edited by Scott CL, 35(4): 877-900, 2012

Bender HE, Kambam P, Thompson CR: Juvenile Adjudicative Competence. 
Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Edited by Levesque RJR. Chichester, U.K., Springer Publishing, 2012

Weinstock R, Thompson CR: Commentary: Ethics-Related Implications and Neurobiological Correlates of False Confessions in Juveniles. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 37(3):344-8, 2009

Wu S, Thompson CR: Juvenile Offenders in Handbook of Correctional Psychiatry. Edited by Scott CL. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 543-72, 2009

Thompson CR, Kenan J: Children: as Defendants in Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science. Edited by Jamieson A and Moenssens A. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2009

Costello J, Kenan J, Thompson CR: Parental Rights and Prerogatives in Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science. Edited by Jamieson A and Moenssens A. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2009

Kambam P, Thompson CR: The Development of Decision-Making Capacities in Children and Adolescents: Psychological and Neurobiological Perspectives and Their Implications for Juvenile Defendants. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 27(2): 173-90, 2009

Thompson CR, Del-Pan N, Beckson M, Weinstock R: Adolescent Substance Use Disorders and Psychiatrists: Competent Assessment and Treatment? The American Journal on Addictions, 17(3): 245-6, 2008

Simpson JR, Thompson CR, Beckson M: Impact of Orally Disintegrating Olanzapine on Use of Intramuscular Antipsychotics, Seclusion, and Restraint in an Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Setting. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26(3): 333-5, 2006 

Chaiken SB, Thompson CR, Shoemaker WE: Mental Health Interventions in Correctional Settings in Handbook of Correctional Mental Health. Edited by Scott CL and Gerbasi JG. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 109-30, 2005

Thompson CR, Beckson M: A Case of Factitious Homicidal Ideation. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 32(3): 277-81, 2004 

Thompson CR (ed): UCLA Psychiatry Residency Handbook. Los Angeles, NPI Press, 2001

Thompson CR, Quanbeck CD: Suicide Risk Assessment in UCLA Psychiatry Residency Handbook. Edited by Thompson CR and Little JZ. Los Angeles, NPI Press, 2001

Thompson CR, Quanbeck CD: Violence Risk Assessment in UCLA Psychiatry Residency Handbook. Edited by Thompson CR and Little JZ. Los Angeles, NPI Press, 2001

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