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James Alan Fox, Ph.D.
The Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and Professor of Law, Policy and Society
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts 02115617-373-3296 office
617-416-4400 celle-mail: j.fox@neu.edu
- Thirty years on the Northeastern University faculty
- The Lipman Family Chair holder (since 1999) and former dean (1991-1999)
- Joint appointment as Professor of Law, Policy and Society (since 2007)
- Author of sixteen books, including The Will to Kill (2007) and Extreme Killing (2005)
- Former columnist for the Boston Herald, writing three times monthly on crime and justice issues
- Regularly quoted in major newspapers and interviewed on national television
- Served as news analyst for NBC and consultant for FOX News
- Frequently lectures on college campuses and to community and corporate groups
- Fifteen appearances before the United States.Congress
- Served as a Visiting Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice
- Profiled in The New York Times (2006), USA Today (1995) , Scientific American (1996), and elsewhere
- Consultant on major investigations, including the Gainesville, FL serial killings of college students and the Capitol Hill (Seattle) mass murder at a rave after-party
- Winner of the 2007 Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital punishment scholarship
- Winner in 2008 of the Klein Memorial Lectureship from Northeastern University