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David Pyrooz

@dpyrooz

• Criminologist @BoulderSoc • PhD @ASUCrimJustice • BS/MS @fresno_state • Tweets on gangs, violence, prisons, & criminal justice • #competingforcontrol CUP 2019

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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…

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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…

What's a gang? In a new vignette study, JDensley <a href="/dpyrooz/">David Pyrooz</a> &amp; <a href="/jsanchez318/">Jose Sanchez</a> 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.
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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

Thank you .<a href="/GovofCO/">Governor Jared Polis</a> 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
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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."

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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…

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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

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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…

Two possible tenure track positions <a href="/CUBoulder_SOCY/">Department of Sociology CU Boulder</a> 

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…
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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.

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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…