| Abstract: | On May 18, 2003, Tom Dexter (d. April 15, 2004) delivered the commencement address to the graduates of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Albany, State University of New York. Mr. Dexter had worked in and administered various agencies of criminal justice for over 40 years, always searching for the most human way possible for himself and his staff to treat those ‘treated’ by the system. Always open to new ideas himself – indeed, to the outcomes of his own behavior – he was instrumental in bringing together faculty from the School of Criminal Justice and staff from the St. Anne Institute and La Salle School in Albany, New York, for a decade‐long research project, the Service Outcomes Action Research (SOAR). The focus of the project is on the impact or effect of those institutions on the young people they are ordained to serve. |
