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Cindy Brooks Dollar
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Publications - 25
Citations - 397
Cindy Brooks Dollar is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health court & Procedural justice. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 24 publications receiving 336 citations. Previous affiliations of Cindy Brooks Dollar include North Carolina State University.
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The Age Structure-Crime Rate Relationship: Solving a Long-Standing Puzzle
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between the age structure and homicide rates across ecological studies of crime and found that youth with ties to mainstream social institutions such as school, work or the military, and youths without such bonds on the other end, account for the direction of relationship between homicide rates and age structure.
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Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting Redesign
TL;DR: Racial threat theory was developed as a way to explain how population composition influences discriminatory social control practices and has become one of the most acknowledged frameworks for explaining racial disparity in criminal justice outcomes as mentioned in this paper.
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Observations of reintegrative shaming in a mental health court.
TL;DR: Findings show that the mental health court is more likely to use reintegrative shaming and show respect and forgiveness for offenders, and less likely to show disapproval.
Examining Mental Health Court Completion: A Focal Concerns Perspective
TL;DR: This paper used a mixed-method approach to examine focal concerns in a mental health court (MHC) and found that gender and length of time in court influence the court's contextualization of noncompliance.
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Examining Mental Health Court Completion: A Focal Concerns Perspective
Bradley Ray,Cindy Brooks Dollar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used a mixed-method approach to examine focal concerns in a mental health court (MHC) and found that gender and length of time in court influence the court's contextualization of noncompliance.