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Distinguished Faculty Award (Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service), LSU

hancellor’s Technology Transfer Award, LSU

Reconsidering the Unusual Suspect: Immigration and the 1990s Crime Decline

Religious Ecology, Floaters and Crime: The Links Between Social Capital, Institutional Disengagement and Homicide

Latino Paradox or Black Exception? Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in the 21st Century

Statistical Models for Ordinal Variables (Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences)

Violent Crime & Urban Demography

Edward S. Shihadeh is an American sociologist and criminologist. He is professor and chair of sociology at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At LSU, he also coordinates the Crime and Policy Evaluation Research Group, which he co-founded with Matthew Lee in 2005. He began his academic career in mathematical demography, but later became interested in researching crime and deviance as they pertained to urban black communities.

Criminology

Urban Sociology

Race, Ethnicity & Immigration

LSU Faculty Profile

Wikipedia Page

ResearchGate Citations

Dr. Edward Shihadeh, LSU Criminologist (2019)

‘The Only Way We Get Out of There Is in a Pine Box’

Stefanski hinges attorney general campaign on fentanyl crackdown

Case Study: Louisiana State University & Louisiana Department of Corrections. How to Revolutionize your Model Optimization.

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Did you know that people convicted of second degree murder are the least likely to commit another crime? LSU Department of Sociology Professor Edward Shihadeh is a mathematical demographer who studies numbers. He has applied his expertise to develop life-changing tools that identify offenders’ risk and needs, which are being used by the Louisiana Department of Corrections to lower recidivism and the prison over-population problem.

LSU Science Café: Smarter and Safer—The Science Behind Second Chances

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