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72
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28695
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2018
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1174

Thomas Grisso publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Grisso sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 239 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Thomas Grisso D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Grisso sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Grisso is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology and related subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, general health professions, and pharmacy.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics including psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending. Other main areas of focus are criminal justice and corrections analysis, counseling practices and supervision, deception detection and forensic psychology, stalking and cyberstalking, health policy implementation science, and child abuse and trauma.

Thomas Grisso has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to Psychological Assessment, Law and Human Behavior, Psychology Public Policy and Law, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Frontiers in Psychology.

  • Police-induced confessions, 2.0: Risk factors and recommendations (2025, Law and Human Behavior)
  • The developmental reform in juvenile justice: Its progress and vulnerability (2021, Psychology Public Policy and Law)
  • Risk-Need-Responsivity Meets Mental Health: Implementation Challenges in Probation Case Planning (2021, Criminal Justice and Behavior)
  • Mental Health Problems in Girls Who Committed Sexual Offenses: Similarities and Differences Compared to Girls With Non-sex Offenses and Boys With Sex Offenses (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Feedback on Forensic Mental Health Assessments in a Juvenile Court Clinic Certification Program (2020, Juvenile and Family Court Journal)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Antoinette Kavanaugh, David J. Bridgett, Jesus Chavarria, Betsy Davis, and Thomas M. Achenbach.

Thomas Grisso has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. Notably, they authored "Evaluations for Sentencing of Juveniles in Criminal Court," published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities and by others in the same neighborhoods.

    Henry J. Steadman;Edward P. Mulvey;John Monahan;Pamela Clark Robbins

  • Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Eric Silver;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Assessing patients' capacities to consent to treatment

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Thomas Grisso

  • Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments

    Thomas Grisso

  • Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals

    Thomas Grisso;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Police-induced confessions: risk factors and recommendations.

    Saul M. Kassin;Steven A. Drizin;Thomas Grisso;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Juveniles' competence to stand trial: a comparison of adolescents' and adults' capacities as trial defendants.

    Thomas Grisso;Laurence Steinberg;Jennifer Woolard;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study. III: Abilities of patients to consent to psychiatric and medical treatments.

    Thomas Grisso;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • The MacCAT-T: a clinical tool to assess patients' capacities to make treatment decisions.

    Thomas Grisso;Paul S. Appelbaum;Carolyn Hill-Fotouhi

  • A Classification Tree Approach to the Development of Actuarial Violence Risk Assessment Tools

    Henry J. Steadman;Eric Silver;John Monahan;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Adolescent development and the measurement of juvenile psychopathy

    Daniel Seagrave;Thomas Grisso

  • Developing a clinically useful actuarial tool for assessing violence risk

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Paul S. Appelbaum;Pamela Clark Robbins

  • The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study. I: Mental illness and competence to consent to treatment.

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Thomas Grisso

  • Therapeutic misconception in clinical research: frequency and risk factors.

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Charles W. Lidz;Thomas Grisso

  • Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument for mental health needs of juvenile justice youths.

    Thomas Grisso;Richard Barnum;Kenneth E. Fletcher;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • Therapeutic misconception and the appreciation of risks in clinical trials.

    Charles W Lidz;Paul S Appelbaum;Thomas Grisso;Michelle Renaud

  • An actuarial model of violence risk assessment for persons with mental disorders

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Pamela Clark Robbins;Paul Appelbaum

  • MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research(maccat-Cr)

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Thomas Grisso

  • The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study. II: Measures of abilities related to competence to consent to treatment.

    Thomas Grisso;Paul S. Appelbaum;Edward P. Mulvey;Kenneth E. Fletcher

  • Juveniles’ Waiver of Rights: Legal and Psychological Competence

    Thomas Grisso

  • Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice

    Thomas Grisso;Robert G. Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul S. Appelbaum
Paul S. Appelbaum Columbia University
Henry J. Steadman
Henry J. Steadman Policy Research Associates
Eric Silver
Eric Silver Pennsylvania State University
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Olivier F. Colins
Olivier F. Colins Ghent University
Kirk Heilbrun
Kirk Heilbrun Drexel University
Robert Vermeiren
Robert Vermeiren Leiden University Medical Center
Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University
Elizabeth Cauffman
Elizabeth Cauffman University of California, Irvine
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Gisli H. Gudjonsson King's College London

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