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IBS Speaker Series: James Densley
October 7 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.
*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP.
Title: Preventing School Shootings
Abstract: Weaving together insights from five active research projects (a mixed-methods study of US mass shooters, a national survey of gun violence exposure, a new database of K-12 school homicides, a mixed-methods study of homicide in the Twin Cities, an action research collaboration in the St. Paul Public Schools), and nearly two decades of practical experience, this presentation explores trends in school shootings, gaps in existing knowledge about youth violence, and implications for policy and practice that put prevention front and center.
Bio: Dr. James Densley is a Professor and Department Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Metro State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known as co-founder of The Violence Prevention Project Research Center (“The Violence Project”) at Hamline University. Densley is the author of nine books and editor of two more, including the bestselling, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles on gangs, criminal networks, violence, and policing in top scientific journals, and more than 100 chapters, essays, and other works in various outlets such as The New York Times, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Densley earned his doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford.
