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Cindy Brooks Dollar
Department of Sociology
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
FrankPorterGrahamBuilding, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC27402-6170
EDUCATION
2014North CarolinaStateUniversity, Ph.D. Sociology
[entered 2009]
2001University of North Carolina-Greensboro, M.A., Sociology
1999 University of North Carolina-Greensboro, B.A., Sociology
Magna Cum Laude
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Sociology of Crime, Deviance, and Social Control; Criminological Theory;
Race-Ethnic andSex-Gender Inequalities
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2014-PresentThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Assistant Professor
2009-2014North Carolina State University, Lecturer
2003 - 2012The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Instructor
2003-2009Socio-Legal Consultant,Legal Case Manager
Conducted focus groups, located and interviewed pre-trial witnesses,conducted post-trial juror interviews,examined case files for breaches in state and federal laws
2001 - 2003 RTI International, Survey Specialist
1998 - 2001The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Research Assistant
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2015. “Sex Ratio Effects on Marital Formation and Dissolution, 1980-2000.”Sociological Inquiry85(4): 556-575.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Joshua Hendrix. 2015."The Importance of Romantic and Work Relations on Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use Among Adults."Sociological Spectrum35(5): 465-481.
(Peer-Reviewed Publications, continued)
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Bradley Ray. 2015. “The Practice of Reintegrative Shaming in Mental Health Court.” Criminal Justice Policy Review, Special Issue on Restorative Justice and Community Corrections 26(1): 29-44.
Ray, Bradley and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2014. “Exploring Stigmatization and Stigma Management in Mental Health Court: Assessing Modified Labeling Theory in a New Context.” Sociological Forum 29(3): 720-735.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2014. “Conceptual Remixing in Criminology: Tracing Durkheim and Marx’s Influence on Etiological Theories of Crime.” Sociology Compass 8(10): 1157-1166.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2014. “Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting Redesign.” Journal of Criminology
Ray, Bradley and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2013. “Examining Mental Health Court Completion: A Focal Concerns Perspective.” The Sociological Quarterly 54(4): 647-699.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Bradley Ray. 2013. “Adult Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use: An Examination of Bond Theory.” Deviant Behavior 34(11): 932-949.
McCall, Patricia L., Kenneth C. Land, Cindy Brooks Dollar, Karen F. Parker. 2013. “The Age Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 29(2): 167-190.
Anderson, Alecia D., Andrea N. Hunt, Rachel E. Powell, Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2013. “Student Perceptions of Teaching Transparency.” The Journal of Effective Teaching 13(2): 38-47.
Ray, Bradley, Cindy Brooks Dollar and Kelly Thames. 2011. “Mental Health Courts as Reintegrative Shaming.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 34: 49-55.
Manuscripts Under Review:
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. “Sex Ratios, Female Headed Families, and Gendered Socio-Economic Status”
Dollar, Cindy Brooks, Patricia McCall, Kenneth Land, and Joshua Fink. “Age Structure and
Neighborhood Homicide: A Test of the Differential Institutional Engagement Hypothesis.”
Hendrix, Joshua and Cindy Brooks Dollar. “American Slaughterhouses and the Need for Speed:
An Examination of the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis”
Research in Progress:
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. “Sex Ratios, Female Empowerment and Crimes Against Women”
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. “Observations of a Family Court System”
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2016 “Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Family Court” scheduled to present at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C.
2015“Sex Ratio Effects on Marital Fertility, 1970-2000” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
2014 “The Importance of Romantic and Work Relations on Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use among Adults” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, North Carolina
2013“The Effects of Differential Institutional Engagement on Neighborhood Homicide,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia
“Shame Management among Mental Health Court Participants,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York, New York
“Neighborhood Homicide and Differential Institutional Engagement,” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia
2012“Differential Degrees of Institutional Engagement and the Direction of the Age Structure-
Homicide Relationship,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, Chicago, Illinois
“Success Stories and “Superstars” in North Carolina’s First Mental Health Court,” presented at the annual North Carolina Criminal Justice Association, Raleigh, NC
2011“Disparities in Mental Health Court,” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C.
“Examining Mental Health Court Decision Making,” presented at the annual meeting of Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, Nevada
“The Relationship of the Young Adult Age Structure to a City's Homicide Rate” presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA
2010“Mental Health Courts as Reintegrative Shaming” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, GA
2000“Reversing Wrongful Convictions: Processes Involved in Undoing Justice,” presented at the annual meeting of American Society of Criminology, San Francisco
1999“Spousal Homicide: A Regional Analysis” presented at the annual meeting ofAmerican Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada
(Professional Presentations, continued)
“Familial Homicide: A Socio-Legal Context” presented at the annual meeting of International Family Violence Conference University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
RESEARCH AND GRANT EXPERIENCE, NOT FUNDED
“Judicial Decision-making, Therapeutic Justice, and Families: Observations of a Family Court”
New Faculty Internal Grant 2015-2016
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Principal Investigator
“Therapeutic Justice and Family Court”
Faculty First Summer Scholarship Support Award 2015
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Principal Investigator
RESEARCH AND GRANT EXPERIENCE, FUNDED
“Therapeutic Justice and Family Court”
New Faculty Internal Grant 2016
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Principal Investigator
“Habitats of Crime”
Departmental Research Award 2012-2013
North CarolinaStateUniversity
Research Assistant
Under the direction of William R. Smith
“Coercion in Bangladesh and Ukraine”
Departmental Research Award 2012
North CarolinaStateUniversity
Research Assistant and Data Analyst
Under the direction of Charles R. Tittle
“Urbanness and Urbanism: A Fresh Look Using Non-Western Data”
Departmental Research Award 2012
North CarolinaStateUniversity
Research Assistant and DataAnalyst
Under the direction of Charles R. Tittle
(Funded Research and Grant Experience, continued)
“Collective Reflectiveness and Homicide Rates”
Departmental Research Award 2011
North CarolinaStateUniversity
Research Assistant and Data Analyst
Under the direction of Charles R. Tittle and Patricia L. McCall
“Convicted Innocents: Legal and Social Predictors of At-Risk Cases”
Internal Faculty Grant 2000
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Research Assistant
Under the direction of Saundra D. Westervelt
“Community Policing and Attitudes about Crime and Public Safety”
Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina
The Governor’s Crime Commission
Interviewer
Under the direction of John A. Humphrey
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introduction to Sociology (traditional and distance learning)
Current Social Problems (traditional and distance learning)
Deviant Behavior / Social Deviance(traditional and distance learning)
Criminal Justice
Criminology
Introduction to Data Analysis
Criminology Seminar (graduate level)
Advanced Data Analysis (graduate level)
AWARDS AND HONORS
Recipient of David and Marlene Pratto Scholarship in Sociology, UNC-Greensboro 1999
Recipient of Undergraduate Research Assistantship Award, UNC-Greensboro 1998-1999
Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honor Society, 1998-1999
INVITED PRESENTATIONSAND PANELS
2015Guest Appearance by Student Request in Kenneth Allan’s Introduction to Sociology
Topic: “Drugs and Society”
2014 Harriet Elliot Lecture Series, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Topic: “Fighting Inequality and Creating Social Justice in our Changing World”
2011Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society, Annual Luncheon, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Topic: “Using Sociology in Everyday Life”
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
Thesis Committees
Committee Chair
Kristen Bethune, thesis in progress
Title: A Perfect Storm: Using a Feminized Routine Activity Framework to Analyze the Factors that Contribute to Female Undergraduate Sexual Assault
Committee Member
Allison McMillan, thesis in progress
Topic: How personal attachments influence income.
Britney Dent, thesis in progress
Topic: Rampage Shooters
Caley Cassell, completed May 2015
Title: “Shifts in the Promotion of Thin Beauty Ideals and Racial Minorities in Seventeen Magazine From 1955 Until 2014”
Internship Committees
Committee Member
Jordan McIntosh, in progress
Topic: Explanations of Child Sexual Abuse. Internship Site: Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, Alamance County Sheriff’s Department, NC
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Peer Reviewer
Social Problems; Social Science Research; Law and Society Review;Sociological Inquiry; Crime, Law and Social Change;Criminal Justice Policy Review;Population Research and Policy Review; Journal of Criminal Justice; European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research;Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science; Journal of Basic and Applied Research International; Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (Sage textbook 2015);
Service to Sociology and Criminology Organizations
2015-2018 Executive Committee, North Carolina Sociological Association
2011-2013 Membership Committee Member, ASA’s Crime, Law and Deviance Section
2012 Chair, “School and Extra-Curricular Inequalities, Delinquency, and Discipline,”
annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois
Service to Academic Departments
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2016-PresentPre-law Advising Committee, Member, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG
2015-PresentLecturer Advisor, Department of Sociology, UNCG
2015-PresentCourse Schedule Committee, Member, Department of Sociology, UNCG
2014-2015Undergraduate Course Curriculum Committee, Consulting Member, Department of
Sociology, UNCG
2014-2015Senior Lecturer Mentor, Department of Sociology, UNCG
North CarolinaStateUniversity
2013Moodle Instructional Designer, Department of Sociology, NCSU
2011-2013 Graduate Student Organizer for Crime, Deviance and Social Control
Research Symposiums, NCSU
1999-2001 Faculty-Student Liaison, UNC-Greensboro Sociology Department
1998-2001Student representative, UNC-Greensboro SACS Steering Committee
Service to Community
2015-PresentBenevolence Farm, Programming Committee Member
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2014 UNC Odum Institute 6-week Short Course “Applied Spatial Analysis using R”
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association
American Society of Criminology
Southern Sociological Society
North Carolina Sociological Association
REFERENCES
Available Upon Request