A University of Colorado at Boulder sociology professor has won a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant to develop coursework at a Taiwan criminology institute.
Robert Regoli will spend two weeks working with the faculty at National Taipei University's National Criminology Institute to develop curriculum and research areas for graduate students. He will travel to Taiwan on March 23.
The sociology of crime and sport are Regoli's two primary academic interests. He specializes in crime causation, juvenile delinquency and justice. During a previous visit to Taipei, Regoli helped establish the International Society of Crime and Public Policy, which will meet for the first time in October. Regoli will lead a delegation of American criminologists to Taiwan to discuss crime and its control.
"My Taiwanese colleagues and I are hoping the conference will be an annual event, focusing each year on a different issue important to criminologists in both the U.S. and in Taiwan," he said.
The transmission of racist ideology from the United States to Taiwan is another research area that Regoli is pursuing with Taiwanese scholars. One focus of his study is an investigation of whether the images of minorities that exist in the United States are also present in Taiwan, he said.
Regoli is a past president and a fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, one of the largest criminal justice associations in the world.
He is among the first grantees under the new Fulbright Senior Specialists short-term grants program. The program supports development and institutional planning at schools in 140 countries. It was created to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar program, which is intended to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.