Faculty & Staff
Cindy Brooks Dollar
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
PhD, North Carolina State University, 2014
Email: cbdollar@uncg.edu
Click here for Dr. Brooks-Dollar’s CV
Research and Teaching Interests
Sociology of Deviance, Harm, and Control; Criminological Theory; Inequalities
Personal Statement
I view social deviance (its definition, enactment, and punishment) as inextricably linked to broad social issues. Collectively, my research focuses on links between inequalities, harm, and control. I investigate patterns of substance use, violence, and non-conventional family structures as well as interactions occurring within “specialty courts,” including drug courts, mental health courts, and family courts. As a teacher, I encourage student engagement in learning and promote critical thinking and writing. I organize my classes in a way that introduces students to historical and contemporary scholarship and emphasizes the value of sociological theory and research methods.
Peer-Reviewed Publications by topic (*=graduate student coauthor)
Social Trauma
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2024. “Embodying Non-speciesism through Altered States of Consciousness” in Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements, edited by G. Hunnicut, R. Twine, & K. Mentor, Taylor & Francis.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Grant Tietjen. 2023. Living as Socially Marked Individuals: Two Stories on Stigma and Its Consequences. Humanity & Society 47(1): 3-28.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2021. I Never Wanted To Be A Stereotype: A Sociologist’s Narrative of Healing. New York: Peter Lang.
- Reviewed in Sociation 22(2): 3-5
- Nominated for American Society of Criminology’s Division of Critical Criminology Social Justice (DCCSJ) Book Award, 2022
- Nominated for Association for Humanist Sociology’s (AHS) Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, 2022
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2020. “Trauma, Yoga, and Trauma Recovery: From the Clinical to the Sociological.” In Realizing Nonviolent Resilience: Neoliberalism, Societal Trauma, and Marginalized Voice, edited by Jeremy Rinker and Jerry Lawler. New York: Peter Lang.
Bethune, Kristen* and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2020. “Explaining Collegiate Sexual Assault Offending and Victimization Using a Feminized Routine Activities Framework” Sociation 19(2): 1-13.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2019. Personal Trauma, Social Pain, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Renewing Focus on an Existential Sociology. International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence. (also via twitter @intlTJsociety)
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2017. “Does the Use of Binary Indicators Reify Difference and Inequality?” Women’s Studies International Forum 61(2): 9–13.
Substance Use
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Josh Hendrix. 2024. “Re-examining the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis” in Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements, edited by G. Hunnicut & K. Mentor, Routledge.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2024. “It’s Hard to Explain, but…: What Self-Regulated Psychedelic Use Can Teach Us about the Social and the Spiritual.” Cognella.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2023. “Heads, Seekers, Psychonauts, and One-Timers: Patterns of Psychedelic Consumption.” Journal of Drug Issues 53(3): 402-421.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2021. “Recreation and Realization: Reported Motivations of Use among Persons Who Consume Psychedelics in Non-Clinical Settings.” Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2019. “Criminalization and Drug ‘Wars’ or Medicalization and Health ‘Epidemics’: How Race, Class, and Neoliberal Politics Influence Drug Laws.” Critical Criminology. 27(2): 305-327.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Joshua Hendrix. 2018. “I’m Not a Traditional Woman:” Tranquilizer Misuse as Self-Medication Among Adult Women” American Behavioral Scientist 62(11): 1562-1585.
Hendrix, Joshua and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2017. “American Slaughterhouses and the Need for Speed: An Examination of the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis” Organization & Environment 30(2) 1-19.
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.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks and Bradley Ray. 2013. “Adult Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use: An Examination of Bond Theory.” Deviant Behavior 34(11): 932-949.
“Therapeutic” or Diversionary courts (*=graduate student)
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2020. “Therapeutically (Un)Just Interactions in Family Court Proceedings.” Criminal Justice Policy Review 31(2): 262-286. Summarized in 2019 Council on Contemporary Families Brief Report titled “Are Family Courts Therapeutically Just?” https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2019/03/19/are-family-courts-therapeutically-just/
Dollar, Cindy Brooks, Bradley Ray, Mary Kay Hudson, and Brittany J. Hood*. 2018. “Examining Changes in Procedural Justice and Their Influence on Problem-Solving Court Outcomes.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law 36(1): 32-45.
Ray, Bradley and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2018. “Procedural Justice and Compliance in Problem-Solving Courts.” In Contextualizing Compliance: Individual Motivations, Social Processes and Institutional Design, edited by S. Siddiki, T. Heikkila, and S. Espinosa. New York: Routledge.
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.
Ray, Bradley and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2013. “Examining Mental Health Court Completion: A Focal Concerns Perspective.” The Sociological Quarterly 54(4): 647-699.
Ray, Bradley, Cindy Brooks Dollar and Kelly Thames. 2011. “Mental Health Courts as Reintegrative Shaming.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 34: 49-55.
Ecological Studies of Crime & Nonconformity (*=graduate student)
Wang, Ting and Cindy Brooks Dollar. Under Review. The Gender-Crime Convergence Across Race Ethnicities: Testing Mismatched Liberation Theory with an Intersectional Lens
Wang, Ting and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2024. “Testing Mismatch Liberation Theory Across Race-Ethnicity and Gender” in Perceptions of Female Offenders (Vol.2), edited by B.L. Russell, Springer.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks, Ellen Donnelly and Karen Parker. 2019 “Joblessness, Poverty and Neighborhood Crime: Testing Wilson’s Assertions of Jobless Poverty” Social Currents 6(4): 343–360
Dollar, Cindy Brooks, Patricia McCall, Kenneth Land, and Joshua Fink*. 2017 “Age Structure and Neighborhood Homicide: A Test and Elaboration of the Differential Institutional Engagement Hypothesis.” Homicide Studies 21(3): 1-24.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2017. “Sex Ratios, Single Motherhood, and Gendered Structural Relations: Examining Female-Headed Families across Racial-Ethnic Populations.” Sociological Focus 50(4): 375-390.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2015. “Sex Ratio Effects on Marital Formation and Dissolution, 1980-2000.” Sociological Inquiry 85(4): 556-575.
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.
Other Theoretical Issues of Social Deviance (*=graduate student)
Bethune, Kristen* and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2020. “Explaining Collegiate Sexual Assault Offending and Victimization Using a Feminized Routine Activities Framework” Sociation 19(2): 1-13.
Tittle, Charles R. and Cindy Brooks Dollar. 2019. “Control Balance Theory of Deviance.” In Handbook of Crime and Deviance, 2nd edition, edited by Marvin Krohn, Gina Penley Hall, Alan J. Lizotte & Nicole Hendrix. New York: Springer.
Dollar, Cindy Brooks. 2014. “Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting Redesign.” Journal of Criminology
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.
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate levelIntroduction to Sociology Current Social Problems Social Deviance Introduction to Data Analysis Criminal Justice Criminology Drugs & U.S. Society Considering Ourselves Offenders, Victims, & Survivors Internships in Sociology
Independent Studies Courses: -The Relationship between School Racial Composition and Student Health -Attorney Perceptions of Judicial Discretion -Social and Demographic Correlates of School Shootings -The Carceral State, Mental Health, and the African American Experience -How to Write Personal Narratives (independent study) -Individual Use and Family Histories within the Opioid Epidemic (independent study) -Advanced Criminological Theory (independent study)
|
Graduate levelCriminology Seminar Advanced Data Analysis Social Control Seminar
Independent Studies Courses: -Racialization and Gendering of Athletic Bodies -Double Stigmas: Mental Health Concerns among African Americans -Slave Patrols and the Origin of American Policing -Social Media Portrayals of Black American Women -Racial Disparities in Sentencing among Women Defendants -Somatic Therapeutics in the Carceral State -Social Trauma and Recovery -Cults as a Process of Social Learning (independent study) -Towards a Criminology of Terrorism and Genocide (independent study) -Social-Psychic Processes of Violence and Reconciliation (independent study) -Cults as Social Learning (independent study) -Towards a Criminology of Terrorism and Genocide (independent study) -Social Trauma and Recovery (independent study) |
Select Service for the Discipline
2023-Present AKD Student Mentor
2018-Present Editorial Board, Critical Criminology
2023-2025 Nominations Committee Member, Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS)
2023-2024 Chair of Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award Committee, Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS)
2023-2024 Guest editor, Sociation
2022 Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF). Accountable Institutions and Behavior (AIB) Program
2020-2022 Chair of the Lee Student Support Fund Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
2020 Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF). Division of Social and Economic Science, Law and Social Sciences Division
2018-2021 Editorial Board, Sociation (formerly Sociation Today)
2018 Grant Reviewer, NSF, Division of Social & Economic Sciences, Law & Social Sciences Division
2015-2018 Executive Committee, North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA)
2016-2017 Thematic Panel Developer and Presider, American Society of Criminology (ASC)
2011-2013 Membership Committee, American Sociology Association (ASA), Crime, Law & Deviance Section
Peer Reviewer
Journals:
Social Science Research; Violence Against Women; Critical Criminology; Law and Society Review; Demography; Crime, Law and Social Change; Deviant Behavior; Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs; Feminist Theory; Crime & Delinquency; Homicide Studies; Justice Quarterly; Urban Studies; International Criminal Justice Review; Criminal Justice & Behavior; Social Science & Medicine; Criminal Justice Policy Review; Sociological Inquiry; Journal of Adolescent Health; Journal of School Violence; Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health; Sociation; Sociation Today; The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology; Drug Court Review; Population Research and Policy Review; Journal of Criminal Justice; International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction; Children and Youth Services Review; European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science; Journal of Basic and Applied Research International
Books:
The Advancement of Gender (In)Equality in the Post-Feminist Era and Its Impact on Criminal Behavior, Deviations, and Shifting Norms (Routledge book proposal 2023); Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims: The Tangible and Intangible Costs of Victimization (Routledge book proposal 2020); Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, & Drifters: A General Theory of Deviance Management (University of California Press 2018); Civil Court Responses to Intimate Partner Violence (Cognella book proposal 2018); Applied Analytical Methods Survival Guide (Kendall Hunt Publishing 2017); Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (Sage Publishing 2015, 2017); Deviant Behavior (Taylor and Francis 2017)
Service to College and University
2016-Present Pre-law Advising Committee for CAS, member
2024 Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies PTF Promotion Review, Committee member
2024 UNCG Teaching Effectiveness Workgroup, member
2023-2024 General Education Council for the University, member
2022-2023 CAS Budget & Planning Committee, member
2022 Judge for UNCG’s Annual Graduate Student Research and Creative Showcase
2018-2022 Faculty Advisor to UNCG Sapphires (All Female A Cappella Group)
1998-2001 SACS Student Representative, SACS Steering Committee
Service to the Community
2019-2020 Community (free) Yoga Classes, B Natural Academy of Music and Arts
2016-2017 Benevolence Farm, Advisory Member to Programming
2015-2016 Benevolence Farm, Programming Committee Member
