James E. Shaw

Dr. James E. Shaw is a Criminal Court-certified Expert Witness and the author of the nationally-acclaimed book, Jack and Jill, Why They Kill. He is also the editor of the renowned web log, "Gang Times" (www.gangtimes.blogspot.com). He is Associate Member No. 00711062 of the American Bar Association and conducts MCLE seminars for lawyers. He also works as a Trainer for the United States Court Federal Public Defender Training Branch.

As part of the case team, he works nationwide with attorneys in Case Consultation, Litigation Support, Deposition, Trial Preparation, and Report Writing. His past public cases range from celebrity ones (homicide in the Conga Room Club owned by actors Jennifer Lopez and Jimmy Smits) to a U.S. Navy Court-Martial gang case to a federal court gang bank heist matter to West Point Military Academy gang incidents to school-related child sexual abuse occurrences to a Uzi-assault event resulting in triple murders to a gang assault-with-deadly-weapon on Los Angeles Police Officers.

He is a former public school administrator and former prosecutor at the Norwalk Superior Court's (CA) Truancy Court. He is the creator of the "Homicidally-at-Risk Adolescent Profile" (HARAP) instrument, used by the Law Office of the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender, and the B.R.A.V.E. ("Be Resilient Avoid Violence Everywhere") violence education and prevention curriculum, cited by the FBI/ATF as an intervention "model of best community practices." As part of his research for his doctorate degree, he spent four years conducting in-person/in-prison interviews of 103 girls and boys incarcerated in state youth prisons for committing homicide and murder.

He is also a consultant and television personality for "Homegirls," a documentary for HBO on female gangs, co-produced by Father Gregory Boyle, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Luis Colina.

Dr. Shaw, as a result of his research and writings, is a regular guest on broadcast media and has been on the NBC Today Show; Good Morning America; MSNBC Live With Mitch Albom; CNN; CBS EyeWitness News; Associated Press Radio; The Bill O'Reilly Show; and some 300 other radio and nationally-syndicated media outlets. His law class, "Administration of Justice: Juvenile Delinquency and Legal Procedures," was one of the most-populated courses in the police science curriculum at El Camino College, California's largest community college. He is on the faculty of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where he teaches Mental Health Law.

He is currently at work on a forthcoming nonfiction work titled, GANGrene: The Fort Hood Shooter and the U.S. Army's Other National Security Risks.

Dr. Shaw's new novel, Girl Sinner, Lady Saint: A Diva Redeemed (358 pp.), based on true events in the life of a female teenager who served a decade-long sentence in youth prison and emerged to become a worldwide Hip Hop singing sensation, desperate to keep her past from colliding with her present, was released nationwide on December 9, 2009 by PublishAmerica, Inc.