Professor James Alan Fox Bio
James Alan Fox
is a Research Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at
Northeastern University. He has written 18 books, including
Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder, The Will
to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder, and Violence and
Security on Campus: From Preschool through College. He has
published dozens of journal and magazine articles, primarily in
the areas of serial murder, mass shootings, intimate partner
homicide, youth crime, school and campus violence, workplace
violence, and capital punishment, and was the founding editor of
the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. He has
published more than 300 op-ed columns in newspapers around the
country, including USA Today, The New York Times, The
Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He is also one
of the principals in maintaining the Associated Press/USA
Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database.
Fox frequently
appears on national television programs and newscasts, and is
regularly interviewed by the press. He was profiled in a
two-part cover story in USA Today, in feature stories in the
New York Times and the Scientific American, in feature
segments on CBS and CNN, as well as in other media outlets. He
has served as an on-air crime news analyst for NBC.
Professor Fox often gives lectures and expert testimony,
including over 100 keynote or campus-wide addresses, 16
appearances before the U.S. Congress, White House meetings with
President Clinton and Vice President Gore on youth violence,
private briefings to Attorney General Reno on trends in
violence, and presentations for Attorney General Eric Holder and
for Princess Anne of Great Britain. He served on President
Clinton’s advisory committee on school shootings, and a
Department of Education Expert Panel on Safe, Disciplined and
Drug-Free Schools. He chaired a blue-ribbon panel for the city
of Seattle investigating the 2006 Capitol Hill massacre and has
been a visiting fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics
focusing on the measurement of homicide trends.
Fox was
honored in 2007 by the Massachusetts Committee against the Death
Penalty with the Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital
punishment scholarship and by Northeastern University with the
2008 Klein Lectureship. Finally, he is ranked #12 in its list of
most influential criminologists in the U.S. by
academicinfluence.com.
James Alan Fox's Resume
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