Cindy Brooks Dollar - Sociology | SOC



Cindy Brooks Dollar

Department of Sociology

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Frank Porter Graham Building, PO Box 26170

Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

cbdollar@uncg.edu

EDUCATION

2014 North Carolina State University, Ph.D. Sociology

[entered 2009]

2001 University 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 and Sex-Gender Inequalities

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2014 - Present The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Assistant Professor

2009 - 2014 North Carolina State University, Lecturer

2003 - 2012 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Instructor

2003 - 2009 Socio-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 - 2001 The 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 Inquiry 85(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 Spectrum 35(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 of American 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 Carolina State University

Research Assistant

Under the direction of William R. Smith

“Coercion in Bangladesh and Ukraine”

Departmental Research Award 2012

North Carolina State University

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 Carolina State University

Research Assistant and Data Analyst

Under the direction of Charles R. Tittle

(Funded Research and Grant Experience, continued)

“Collective Reflectiveness and Homicide Rates”

Departmental Research Award 2011

North Carolina State University

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 PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

2015 Guest 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”

2011 Alpha 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-Present Pre-law Advising Committee, Member, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG

2015-Present Lecturer Advisor, Department of Sociology, UNCG

2015-Present Course Schedule Committee, Member, Department of Sociology, UNCG

2014-2015 Undergraduate Course Curriculum Committee, Consulting Member, Department of

Sociology, UNCG

2014-2015 Senior Lecturer Mentor, Department of Sociology, UNCG

North Carolina State University

2013 Moodle 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

1998-2001 Student representative, UNC-Greensboro SACS Steering Committee

Service to Community

2015-Present Benevolence 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

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