James Densley

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James Densley is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, University of Northampton, Metropolitan State University, Pace University

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According to Wikipedia, James Densley is a British-American sociologist and Professor of Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University. He is best known as co-founder of The Violence Project and as co-author of the bestselling book, The Violence Project: How To Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic. Densley has also published extensively on street gang issues and has been described as "among the most accomplished rising leaders of modern gang research in criminology." He was one of the top 250 most cited criminologists in the world in 2019.

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James Densley's Published Works

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Published Works

How Gangs Work (2013) (149)
It’s Gang Life, But Not As We Know It (2014) (114)
Street Gang Recruitment: Signaling, Screening, and Selection (2012) (103)
‘Going viral’ and ‘Going country’: the expressive and instrumental activities of street gangs on social media (2017) (98)
Cyber violence: What do we know and where do we go from here? (2017) (91)
Working County Lines: Child Criminal Exploitation and Illicit Drug Dealing in Glasgow and Merseyside (2018) (55)
The organisation of London's street gangs (2012) (48)
A Signaling Perspective on Disengagement from Gangs1 (2019) (46)
Ethnic Homophily and Triad Closure (2015) (44)
Ethnic heterogeneity in the activity and structure of a Black street gang (2012) (38)
‘We’ll show you gang’: The subterranean structuration of gang life in London (2015) (38)
Putting the ‘Street’ in Gang: Place and Space in the Organization of Scotland’s Drug-Selling Gangs (2018) (35)
Gang glocalization: How the global mediascape creates and shapes local gang realities (2019) (35)
Broadcasting Badness: Violence, Identity, and Performance in the Online Gang Rap Scene (2018) (32)
Rio’s New Social Order: How Religion Signals Disengagement from Prison Gangs (2018) (32)
Situating gangs within Scotland’s illegal drugs market(s) (2018) (31)
An altered state? Emergent changes to illicit drug markets and distribution networks in scotland. (2018) (27)
Selection into Street Gangs (2016) (26)
Ganging up on gangs: Why the gang intervention industry needs an intervention (2011) (26)
The social order of the underworld: how prison gangs govern the American penal system, by David Skarbek, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, 240 pp., US$99 (hardback), US$27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0199328505 (2015) (23)
Reluctant Gangsters Revisited: The Evolution of Gangs from Postcodes to Profits (2020) (23)
Is Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training evidence-based practice? A systematic review (2018) (23)
Epidemiology of penetrating injuries in the United Kingdom: A systematic review. (2017) (20)
Gang Joining (2018) (20)
Book review: The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds (2014) (19)
County Lines (2019) (19)
Social dominance orientation and trust propensity in street gangs (2014) (19)
The Routine of Mass Murder in China (2014) (18)
Gang violence and social media (2018) (18)
The Matrix in Context: Taking Stock of Police Gang Databases in London and Beyond (2020) (16)
Growing Against Gangs and Violence: Findings From a Process and Outcome Evaluation (2017) (14)
Cops in College: Police Officers’ Perceptions on Formal Education (2013) (13)
A Typology of Street Robbery and Gang Organization: Insights from Qualitative Research in Scotland (2018) (12)
Joining the Gang (2015) (12)
From Breakers to Bikers: The Evolution of the Dutch Crips ‘Gang’ (2020) (12)
A signalling theory of law enforcement hiring (2017) (12)
Girls and gangs: Preventing multiple perpetrator rape (2013) (11)
No two gangs are alike: The digital divide in street gangs' differential adaptations to social media (2020) (10)
Presence of Armed School Officials and Fatal and Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries During Mass School Shootings, United States, 1980-2019 (2021) (10)
On Public Protest, Violence, and Street Gangs (2018) (10)
The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands (2020) (9)
Aggression in Groups (2017) (8)
Evaluation of ‘the R-Model’ crisis intervention de-escalation training for law enforcement (2019) (8)
Deficit or Credit? A Comparative, Qualitative Study of Gender Agency and Female Gang Membership in Los Angeles and Glasgow (2018) (8)
Homicide–Suicide in China: an Exploratory Study of Characteristics and Types (2017) (8)
Social Media, Strain, and Technologically Facilitated Gang Violence (2020) (7)
Communication of Intent to Do Harm Preceding Mass Public Shootings in the United States, 1966 to 2019 (2021) (6)
Pulling Levers on Gang Violence in London and St. Paul (2016) (6)
Factors associated with GP referrals to physiotherapy (2001) (6)
An Introduction to Gangs and Serious Youth Violence in the United Kingdom (2020) (6)
Progression from Cafeteria to À La Carte Offending: Scottish Organised Crime Narratives (2019) (5)
Opinion: We analyzed 53 years of mass shooting data. Attacks aren’t just increasing, they’re getting deadlier (2019) (5)
Scotland’s Gang Members (2020) (5)
Ethical and Methodological Issues in Gang Ethnography in the Digital Age: Lessons from Four Studies in an Emerging Field (2020) (5)
Gangs and Society (2013) (5)
Aggression between social groups (2016) (4)
The Lived Experience of Stop and Search in Scotland: There Are Two Sides to Every Story (2019) (4)
The Rise of Drug Dealing in the Life of the North American Street Gang (2018) (3)
Psychosis and mass shootings: A systematic examination using publicly available data. (2021) (3)
Group Aggression. (2018) (3)
Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions: Re-Examining Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia (2021) (2)
‘A citadel of crime’ : Saint Paul, Minnesota and the O’Connor system (2018) (2)
Street gangs and coercive control: The gendered exploitation of young women and girls in county lines (2021) (2)
Collective violence online (2020) (1)
If crime is not the problem, crime fighting is no solution: policing gang violence in the age of abolition (2021) (1)
Is Social Media a Gang? Toward a Selection, Facilitation, or Enhancement Explanation of Cyber Violence (2016) (1)
Under the hood: the mechanics of London's street gangs (2011) (1)
Situating gangs within Scotland’s illegal drugs market(s) (2017) (1)
15.3 WHAT THE LIVES OF MASS SHOOTERS AND GANG MEMBERS CAN TEACH US ABOUT PREVENTING ONLINE HATE (2021) (1)
Who are the enforcers? The motives and methods of muscle for hire in West Scotland and the West Midlands (2020) (1)
US Mass public shootings since Columbine: victims per incident by race and ethnicity of the perpetrator. (2022) (1)
Homicide–Suicide in China: an Exploratory Study of Characteristics and Types (2016) (0)
Nightmare on The Street (2020) (0)
Growing Pains (2020) (0)
Global perspectives on gangs, violence and desistance: gangs, masculinity and social, emotional and spiritual journeys: transatlantic insights from Los Angeles, Copenhagen and Glasgow (2016) (0)
Rio’s New Social Order: How Religion Signals Disengagement from Prison Gangs (2018) (0)
The School Years (2019) (0)
Contesting County Lines (2023) (0)
The Path Less Traveled: Path Analysis and the Psychology of Gang Members (2018) (0)
County Lines in Context (2019) (0)
Show Me the Money (2020) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Breaking Through (2020) (0)
Illicit Drug Markets Today (2019) (0)
Working County Lines (2019) (0)
Gangs, Media, and Technology (2013) (0)
How Mass Public Shooters Use Social Media: Exploring Themes and Future Directions (2023) (0)
Who are the enforcers? The motives and methods of muscle for hire in West Scotland and the West Midlands (2020) (0)
All Things Must Pass (2020) (0)
Exploring the Intersection of Drug Addiction and Mental Ill-Health in Scottish Prisons: A Qualitative Study of Incarcerated Men (2023) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade (2022) (0)
Negotiating the Victim/Offender Nexus (2019) (0)
Gang Prevention and Intervention (2013) (0)
A Tale of Two Research Sites (2019) (0)
On Public Protest, Violence, and Street Gangs (2018) (0)
It’s the Scheme that Binds Us (2020) (0)
Drug dealers know no limits to profit from the misery they cause (2018) (0)
Back to the Future (2020) (0)
Over-policed and under-protected (2021) (0)
Reluctant Gangsters Revisited: The Evolution of Gangs from Postcodes to Profits (2019) (0)
Criminal justice community forums: Discussing Ferguson and beyond (2015) (0)
Conclusion (2019) (0)
Things Get Serious (2020) (0)

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