In this episode we speak with Professor David Pyrooz about his work on gang membership and self-control.
David is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He focuses his research on gangs and criminal networks, incarceration and prisoner reentry, criminal justice practice and policy, and developmental and life-course criminology. David is the author of Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which won the 2021 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award, and he has been published in journals such as Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Justice Quarterly. He won the American Society of Criminology’s Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award in 2016.
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Get in touch with David:
University of Colorado Boulder Website // David.Pyrooz AT Colorado.edu // Twitter
This is the article authored by David that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Pyrooz, David C., Chris Melde, Donna L. Coffman, Ryan C. Meldrum. (2021). “Selection, stability, and spuriousness: Testing Gottfredson and Hirschi’s propositions to reinterpret street gangs in self-control perspective.” Criminology.
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