Albert J. Grudzinskas, Jr., J.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and
Coordinator of Law and Psychiatry for Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School. His research interests include mental health issues in criminal &
civil law, expert testimony, involuntary commitment, sex offender risk assessment &
management, and substance abuse. His research focuses on the involvement of persons with
mental illness in the criminal justice and civil court systems. He would like to develop
a better understanding of how and why the courts have become the access point for social
services in most communities for persons living in poverty. He is also interested in the
protection of vulnerable populations in human subjects’ research.

Articles

Link

Development and validation of the Mental Health Attitude Survey for Police (with Jonathan C. Clayfield and Kenneth E. Fletcher), Community mental health journal (2011)
 

PDF

The Impact of Suicide Calls on Police (with Barry N. Feldman, Bernice Gershenson, Jonathan C. Clayfield, and Richard P. Cody), Psychiatry Issue Briefs (2011)
 

Link

Risk of Arrest Among Public Mental Health Services Recipients and the General Public (with William H. Fisher, Lorna J. Simon, Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski, Nancy Wolff, Emily Crockett, and Steven M. Banks), Psychiatric Services (2011)
 

Link

The management of sex offenders: perspectives for psychiatry (with Fabian M. Saleh, H. Martin Malin, and R. Gregg Dwyer), Harvard review of psychiatry (2010)
 

Link

Categorizing Temporal Patterns of Arrest in a Cohort of Adults with Serious Mental Illness (with William H. Fisher, Steven M. Banks, Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski, Lorna J. Simon, and Nancy Wolff), Journal of behavioral health services and research (2010)
 

View More »

Books

Link

Sex Offenders: Identification, Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Legal Issues (with Fabian M. Saleh, John M. Bradford, and Daniel J. Brodsky), Center for Mental Health Services Research Publications and Presentations (2009)
 

Contributions to Books

Link

E Pluribus Unum: Creating a Multi-Organizational Structure for Serving Arrestees with Serious Mental Illness (with Jonathan C. Clayfield, William H. Fisher, and Kristen M. Roy-Bujnowski), The Organizational Response to Persons with Mental Illness Involved with the Criminal Justice System (2005)