Grant Duwe is an American criminologist and research director at the

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, as well as a non-visiting scholar at

Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...

's Institute for Studies of Religion. Duwe holds a bachelor's degree from the

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and a Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from

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Mass murder research

Duwe's research on mass murder has examined its patterns and prevalence, the role of the news media in its social construction as a crime problem, and the impact of right-to-carry concealed firearms laws on mass public shootings. In 2007, he wrote the book,
Mass Murder in the United States: A History
', an "excellent historical analysis of mass murder in the United States" that is still considered "one of the most exhaustive studies" that has been done on the topic. Since the publication of ''Mass Murder in the United States: A History'', Duwe has written articles that have focused on mass public shootings. In these articles, Duwe argues that while mass public shootings have not recently been on the rise, they have become more deadly. He has been critical of the methods ''

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'' has used to compile its mass shooting dataset and the conclusions that have been drawn from the use of these data.

Corrections research

Duwe has published more than 50 research studies and program evaluations in peer-reviewed academic journals on a wide variety of correctional topics. He is the author of a 2017 report published by the

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on the use and impact of correctional interventions on prison misconduct, post-prison employment,

recidivism Recidivism (; from ''recidive'' and ''ism'', from Latin ''recidīvus'' "recurring", from ''re-'' "back" and ''cadō'' "I fall") is the act of a person repeating an undesirable behavior after they have experienced negative consequences of th ...

, and cost avoidance. He is also a co-author (along with Michael Hallett, Joshua Hays, Byron Johnson, and Sung Joon Jang) of the book,
The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation
'. Duwe has developed risk assessment instruments that predict sexual recidivism and first-time sexual offending. He is also the developer of the Minnesota Screening Tool Assessing Recidivism Risk (MnSTARR), a fully automated instrument that assesses risk for multiple types of recidivism for males and female prisoners. He received the

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's inaugural Practitioner Research Award for his development of the MnSTARR.

References

1971 births Living people American criminologists Baylor University faculty {{Criminologist-stub