Dr. Gina Vincent, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of Translational Law
& Psychiatry Research in the Center for Mental Health Services Research in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester,
MA. She received her Ph.D. in the Forensic Psychology and Law program from Simon Fraser
University in 2003. Dr. Vincent has received funding from NIDA, NIMH and the MacArthur
Foundation for studies relevant to risk assessment for re-offending/violence, mental
health screening, and addiction among youth involved in the juvenile justice system. She
has a NIDA K01 Young Investigator’s Award to study the underlying functionalities of
cocaine addiction among youth with callous-unemotional conduct disorder. She is also the
Co-Director of the National Youth Screening & Assessment Project (NYSAP; Director:
Thomas Grisso), one of the national technical assistance centers for the MacArthur Models
for Change Initiative – a national effort towards juvenile justice reform. Dr. Vincent
has years of experience as a trainer and consultant for clinical forensic assessments of
psychopathic personality disorder using the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised.
Dr Vincent has specialized interests in both juvenile justice and adult offender
populations, particularly with respect to implementation and policy research, violence
and re-offending risk assessment, psychopathic personality disorder, and test
construction and item response theory methods. Her main goals pertain to the fair and
accurate use of risk assessment procedures in juvenile justice and the neuropsychological
relation between psychopathic traits and addiction.
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