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UAlbany Student and Professor
Use Society of Criminology Award to Explore
Justice Model for Dominican Republic
Contact: Lisa James Goldsberry (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (September 10, 2004) -- Wander
Falette, a junior at the University at Albany,
and Dennis Sullivan, an adjunct professor in
UAlbany's School of Criminal Justice, were named
as recipients of the first American Society
of Criminology Minority Scholar/Mentor Research
Grants.
Falette and Sullivan will use the grant to
examine the unique model of restorative justice
that has been practiced in Northern Ireland,
and assess whether the model is applicable to
countries in Latin America, especially the Dominican
Republic, Falette's country of origin. Restorative
justice is a systematic response to wrongdoing
that emphasizes healing the wounds of victims,
offenders and communities caused by criminal
behavior.
The scholar/mentor team will also look at the
cultural conditions in the Dominican Republic
which foster or inhibit the development of a
restorative model of justice in that country's
jurisdictions.
The grant provides the student recipient with
a stipend of $5,000 for his junior year, $5,000
for his senior year, and up to $1,500 in travel
expenses in order to make a presentation of
the findings at the society's annual meeting
in Toronto in 2005.
The Minority Scholar/Mentor Research Grant
program was established this year by the American
Society of Criminology to increase the number
of criminology and criminal justice scholars
from historically disadvantaged and under-represented
ethnic and racial groups.
Awards were made to students beginning their
junior year with the hope that, under the mentoring
system, they will continue their studies in
criminology or criminal justice into graduate
school especially at the doctoral level. The
recipients were selected due to their potential
for completing doctoral work as well as the
quality of the proposed research project and
mentoring relationship. Three other minority
scholar/mentor teams were named from criminology/criminal
justice programs at the University of Maryland,
Eastern Kentucky University, and Rutgers University.
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