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  • How Gangs Work

    An Ethnography of Youth Violence

    by J. Densley ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on extensive interviews with gang members, this book provides a vivid portrayal of gang life. Topics include the profiles and motivations of gang members; the processes of gang evolution, organization, and recruitment; gang members' uses of violence, media, and technology and the role of gangs in the drugs trade and organized crime ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Violence Project

    How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

    by Jillian Peterson, James Densley ...
    An examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies.“Groundbreaking.” ―Rachel Louise Snyder, bestselling author of No Visible BruisesWinner of the 2022 Minnesota Book AwardUsing data from the writers’ groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Gangs

    by Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz, James A. Densley ...
    Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand them cannot be restricted to a singular approach. On Gangs provides a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for understanding this social issue as well as the broad range of responses to it. The authors look at the many influences on gangs’ operation, growth, prevention, and enforcement.The authors provide ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Contesting County Lines

    Case Studies in Drug Crime and Deviant Entrepreneurship

    by Robert McLean, Carlton Brick, James A. Densley ...
    Combining a compulsive read with rigorous academic analysis, this book tells the real-life stories of drug dealers involved in county lines networks, including their methods, motives and misfortunes. Conventional wisdom surrounding county lines often portrays drugs runners as exploited victims and gang proliferation as a market-driven exercise, and suggests a business model facilitated exclusively ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade

    Violence and Vengeance

    by Robert McLean, James A. Densley ...
    Robbery can be planned or spontaneous and is a typically short, chaotic crime that is comparatively under-researched. This book transports the reader to the streets and focuses on the real-life narratives and motivations of the youth gang members and adult organized criminals immersed in this form of violence.Uniquely focusing on robberies involving drug dealers and users, this book considers the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    The Violence Project

    How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

    by Jillian Peterson, James Densley ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    Using data from groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including direct accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence. Peterson and Densley have examined hundreds of data points in the life histories of more than 170 mass shooters, from their childhood and adolescence to their mental ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Police, Prosecutors, Courts, and the Constitution

    Toward Ending the “Awful but Lawful” Era

    by Charles E. MacLean, James A. Densley ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book delves into a multitude of practices that, although deemed “lawful” by courts, are undeniably “awful” and unethical. From police officers employing deceit to extract confessions or consent to search, to prosecutors manipulating innocent individuals to relinquish their rights and plead guilty, to excessive force by law enforcement, these practices erode public trust in the criminal legal ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • County Lines

    Criminal Networks and Evolving Drug Markets in Britain

    by Robert McLean, Grace Robinson, James A. Densley ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context. Drawing upon empirical research gathered in the field between 2012-2019 across two sites, Scotland’s West Coast and Merseyside in England, this book adopts a grounded approach to the drug supply model, detailing how drugs are purchased, sold and distributed at every level of the supply chain at ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Scotland’s Gang Members

    Life and Crime in Glasgow

    by Robert McLean, James A. Densley ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical analysis of gang membership and gang evolution in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city. The book chronicles the lives of young men in and around Glasgow from early childhood to present day and examines the lived experience of family, friendship, community, and crime. It demonstrates ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society

    by John Leverso ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This carefully curated volume contains 43 chapters written by the leading experts in the field, who advance a central theme of "looking back, moving forward" by providing state-of-the-art reviews of the literature they created, shaped, and (re)defined. This ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Isle Full of Noises

    by Kevin Densley ...
    Isle Full of Noises, Kevin Densley's sixth collection, has everything you would expect from this witty, allusive poet - wry observations on the intersection of low and high culture, biting academic satire, rollicking yarns from the underbelly of history - but with a new, fascinating twist: an intense emphasis on the physicality of everything. Sound, particularly, leaps in fizzing profusion from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Conversation on Guns

    Edited by James Densley ...
    Series series Critical Conversations
    From TheConversation.com, an exploration of the devastating gun violence in the United States—and possible ways to stop it.In The Conversation on Guns, editor James Densley brings together a group of expert scholars to explore the role of guns in US society and the tragic impacts of gun violence. From the many forms of gun violence, to effective and innovative public health and community-led ... Read more

    $14.49 USD