Mario e' un cittadino Italiano!
                                                                Commune di Canepina
                                                                Provincia di Viterbo, Italia

Mario's upcoming criminal justice Talks:

March 2009:

• Workshop: North Carolina Juvenile Justice Conference
• Keynote: Indiana Drug Court
• Keynote: Correctional Service of Canada

 

April 2009:

 

• Keynote: International Criminal Justice Conference Isle of Man (UK)

May 2009:

 

• Keynote: Iowa Corrections Conference

June 2009:
   Keynote:Law Enforcement Technology Conference
   Keynote: Colorado Corrections Conference

• An ISP that Worked
• Probation, Parole and Community Corrections - Misunderstood
• Broken Windows v. What Works
• Circular Policy Development
• Manhattan Institute - Reinventing Probation
• Reinvention from the top Down
• To be or not to be a Profession
• Caseload Size
• What Works Book Review
  

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  Mario has served the following professional associations:
  
• President, Vice-president,Treasurer, American Probation and Parole Association
• President, Vice-president, International Association of Reentry
• Treasurer, Secretary, North Carolina Criminal Justice Association
  
• Vice-president, American Correctional Association - NJ Chapter
• President, Founder, New Jersey Parole Officers' Benevolent Association, PBA 326
• Board Member: NJ Coalition for Crime Victims Rights, The Salvation Army
  
  
  

Mario is Chair of the Sociology & Criminal Justice Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Click this link for more information: http://www.uncp.edu/soc_cj/faculty
State Leaders Honored as Outstanding Alumni
Mario A. Paparozzi was the recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award in Government. He graduated from Kean in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Paparozzi has been employed by the New Jersey Department of Corrections for 25 years and is currently the chairman of the State Parole Board. with a specialty in criminology from Rutgers University, he is also an assistant professor of criminal justice in The College of New Jersey’s Department of Law and Justice. Active with the crime victims’ rights movement for more than 15 years at both the national and state levels, Paparozzi is also a founding member of the New Jersey Coalition for Crime Victims’ Rights. He has trained community corrections professionals across the United States wide range of criminal justice topics. In addition, Paparozzi has served on the Governor’s Study Commission on Parole and as a Union County freeholder, when, as chairman of the Finance Committee, he oversaw county jail, law and public safety functions. During his tenure as a freeholder, Paparozzi was active with community groups in developing programs designed to address education, drug and alcohol, and crime-related issues. When former New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman nominated Paparozzi for Chairman of the New Jersey State Parole Board, she stated  “I can think of no one more qualified to head the State Parole Board than Dr. Paparozzi,” Whitman said. “He brings to this important post a remarkable and rare blend of academic study and real life experiences."

UNCP’s Dr. Paparozzi wins national award
Dr. Mario A. Paparozzi, chair of UNC Pembroke’s Department of Sociology and Criminology, was named winner one of the American Probation and Parole Association’s (APPA) most prestigious awards. At the APPA’s annual training institute in Chicago, July 23 – 26, 2006. Dr. Paparozzi was awarded the Walter Dunbar Award for significant contributions to the field. It is the association’s oldest award and is presented to individuals who have distinguished themselves in the field of community corrections. Dr. Paparozzi began his criminal justice career in 1972 as a parole officer trainee and over the course of a 30 year career worked his way up through the ranks to the positions of assistant corrections commissioner and State Parole Board Chair.