Faculty - [ Sociology Faculty - Dr. R. Gregory Dunaway ]
Dr. R. Gregory Dunaway
Department Head
Director of Criminal Justice and Corrections Program
Professor of Sociology
Research Fellow/Scientist, MCJRU, SSRC
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Cincinnati
Email: dunaway@soc.msstate.edu
Dr. Dunaway is professor of sociology and director of sociology graduate studies. He also serves as the coordinator of the Mississippi Crime and Justice Research Unit at the SSRC. Dr. Dunaway's research interests include criminological theory, rural crime and justice, inequality and crime and justice, corrections and criminal justice policy. Currently, he is involved in a number of research projects including an evaluation of Mississippi's Drug Court Program; a survey of Mississippi's Juvenile Detention Facilities and a study on Rural Crime and Justice. Dr. Dunaway's work has been published in outlets such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, The American Journal of Criminal Justice, Research in Crime and Delinquency and Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
