Chris King Research Lab at Montclair State University
Forensic Psychology, Correctional Psychology, Police and Public Safety Psychology, Mental Health Law
Rachel Bomysoad received several grants to support her dissertation project, Project Choices: An Experimental Serious Video Game for Performance-Based Risk Assessment.
1. Psi Chi 2022-23 Summer Graduate Research Grant (July 2023): $1500
2. American Academy of Forensic Psychology Dissertation Grants in Applied Law/Psychology (May 2023): $2000
3. Montclair State University PhD Program in Clinical Psychology Research Award (March 2023): $1500
Kenny Gonzalez matched to an APA-accredited predoctoral internship program in health service psychology, the Bronx VA Medical Center in Bronx NY.
Dr. King and several lab members—Lauren Grove, Sana Vora, and Kenny Gonzalez—have published a book chapter, Assessment and intervention technologies in juvenile justice, in the newly released book, Challenging bias in forensic psychological assessment and testing, edited by Glenda C. Liell, Martin J. Fisher, Lawrence F. Jones, and published by Routledge.
The chapter serves as a companion piece to the systematic review conducted by Lauren Grove, Dr. King, lab member Rachel Bomysoad, former lab member Loumarie Vasquez, and Dr. King’s colleague at the University of Alabama, Dr. Lauren Kois, Technology for assessment and treatment of justice-involved youth: A systematic literature review, published in the journal Law and Human Behavior.
Dr. King, Sana Vora, and Chinwe Ossai have begun a new consultation project concerning diversion of persons with mental health and other service needs circa the time of rapid release from initial detention.
Dr. King, his colleague at the University of Virginia, Dr. Shannon Kelley, and two lab members, Lauren Grove and Brooke Stettler, have published a book chapter, An American perspective, in the newly released book, Safeguarding the quality of forensic assessment in sentencing: A review across western nations, edited by Professor Michiel Van der Wolf and published by Routledge.
The chapter reviews the law and practice of forensic mental health health assessments for adult sentencing, juvenile disposition, insanity acquittal commitment, and sexually dangerous person commitment in the United States, for an international comparative volume.
Starting Fall 2022, Dr. King has received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology. Dr. King will also be transitioning from Associate Director of Clinical Training (Associate DCT) to DCT for the PhD Program in Clinical Psychology.
After five years of having served as editor of the AP-LS News Legal Update column, Dr. King passed the torch to a new editor for the column.
In addition to penning several entries himself, Dr. King wishes to thank all those who submitted or contributed to entires upon his solicitation:
Dr. King and his doctoral student mentee, Sana Vora, published an entry in the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) News Legal Update column, titled Sixty Years of American Psychological Association Amicus Curiae Briefs: 1962 to 2022.
The entry summarizes the 196 amicus (“friend of court”) briefs, 1 letter in support of certiorari (one route by which a higher court may review the decision of a lower court), and 1 letter in support of petition for review that the American Psychological Association (APA) had filed with a range of courts, beginning in 1962 and up through April 2022.
Dr. King and Ms. Vora have made available for download the data set that they compiled for the project, for use and potential updating in the future by others.
The entry can be read here and the data set is available here.
Dr. King chaired a symposium, presented a symposium paper, and co-authored another symposium paper at the 2022 International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS) Conference in Berlin, Germany, held June 14–16, 2022.
The symposium was titled The Current Variability of Insanity Approaches Across the United States and Relative to Europe.
Dr. King was the first author of the symposium paper titled 51+ “Little Countries”: Current Insanity Approaches Across United States Jurisdictions.
He also was a co-author of the symposium paper titled Recent Insanity Decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States: M’Naghten is Not the Floor.
Other contributors to the symposium were as follows: Dr. Ira Packer (University of Massachusetts Medical School); Ms. Shelby Taylor (law student at University of Alabama School of Law); Ms. Ivysmeralys Morales (former MA student at Montclair State University and current RA in Dr. King’s lab); Dr. Danielle Rynczak (University of Massachusetts Medical School); Dr. Lauren Kois (University of Alabama); Dr. Michiel van der Wolf (Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands); and Dr. Hjalmar van Marle (Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands).
Lauren Grove matched to an APA-accredited predoctoral internship program in health service psychology, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia / Child Guidance Clinic. Thereat, Lauren will be focusing on her primary population of professional interest: justice-involved youth.