senior advisor, Research & evaluation

Senior security advisor to both the Worship Security Association and Kingswood Security Consulting, with an emphasis on research and evaluation. A professor of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University and co-founder of The Violence Project LLC. He has received national, and international media attention for his work on street gangs, criminal networks, and mass shootings. James is the author of Minnesota’s Criminal Justice System (Carolina Academic Press, 2016), the award-winning How Gangs Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Associate of the Extra-Legal Governance Institute at the University of Oxford, where he earned his Ph.D. in sociology.