James Densley

Dr. James Densley is Professor and Department Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Metro State University (Minnesota, USA) and co-founder of The Violence Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center best known for its mass shooter database. Densley is the author or editor of 11 books, including the 2022 Minnesota Book Award winner, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in top scientific journals, as well as more than 100 book chapters, essays, and other works in various outlets such as The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, TIME, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Densley earned his doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford.