Gina Vincent, PhD

Gina Vincent is a Professor and Co-Director of the Law & Psychiatry Program at UMass Chan Medical School and a faculty of the Implementation Science & Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC). She has received funding from NIMH, NIDA, NIJ, the MacArthur Foundation, and OJJDP for studies related to the implementation of risk assessment and risk-need-responsivity in juvenile justice settings. She is author of the Risk Assessment in Juvenile Probation: A Guidebook for Implementation manual. She has assisted multiple juvenile justice agencies across the country with the selection and comprehensive implementation of risk assessments for case planning and studies their effectiveness and impact on youth outcomes. She has over 70 publications in the areas of youth risk assessment, racial disparities in risk assessment, and adolescent substance misuse and mental health symptoms.