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How large are the demographic disparities in law enforcement gang databases? James Densley and I provide new evidence from 222 law enforcement agencies in California academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…

What's a gang? In a new vignette study, JDensley David Pyrooz & Jose Sanchez asked a US YouGov sample, describing a teen group and varying its features. They find that group names, violent activity, and structure all shape what the public considers a gang. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thank you .Governor Jared Polis for honoring our Colorado State Champion 12U All-Stars team with the flag that flew over the State Capitol on July 19, 2024! We are both very proud and excited to represent this great state we call home. #WildcatNation #BoulderCO #LLWS

Colton Priest is a BEAST 💪 #LLWS

I had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy. Excellent book. My blurb on the back: "This book packs a punch. Paul Joyce pulls back the curtain on Boston's gangland to unveil the trials and tribulations of the boys who were there when it started and the men they became."

For nearly a decade James Densley and I have been weighing the evidence on police gang databases. We share our thoughts in this new opinion editorial in GOVERNING governing.com/management-and…

Our new paper in Criminology demonstrates how leaving gangs improves mental health, drawing on the stress process perspective and data from the Northwestern Juvenile Project

Two possible tenure track positions Department of Sociology CU Boulder 1) medical sociology / social demographer, rostered in sociology 2) social dimensions of hazards/disasters, rostered in the Institute of Behavioral Science Details below jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

FYI -- the manuscript submission deadline of 9/1 is incorrect. If you're interested in the special issue, you've got at least another month to submit and receive full consideration of your manuscript.

Excited to share our new article, "Keeping it Real: A Signaling Theory Perspective on Authentic Claims of Gang Membership Made on Social Media," now out in Theoretical Criminology. Co-authored with James Densley and Lindsey Insco Inbox me for a copy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

With an active interest in policing, gangs, homicide, corrections, and even dept admin, the conversation with ASU Criminal Justice and longtime UMSL_CCJ professor Scott Decker by former student and now gang-guru in his very own right, David Pyrooz, covers it all. Check out our latest

Every researcher knows mistakes happen, but it takes real commitment to open science to put your code and data out there, knowing the risks. You are *asking* the world for critique. Unfortunately, most of criminology is still unwilling to do this most basic step. That's why it

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m glad that we’ve got a resolution. More from the authorship team soon, including our authors’ note and a long-form essay. But in the meantime, have a look at Nix’s blog to learn more about the outcome of a premature call for retraction.

Congratulations to Shelley Johnson (Lifetime Achievement Award), David Pyrooz (Distinguished Scholar Award), Meghan Mitchell (Distinguished New Scholar Award), & Susan McNeeley (Edward J Latessa Practitoner Award)!🎉 #ASCsanfran2024 #asc2024