James Alan Fox is The Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and former dean at Northeastern University in Boston .   He has written sixteen books, including his two newest, The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder and Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder. He has also published dozens of journal and magazine articles, primarily in the areas of multiple murder, juvenile crime, school violence, workplace violence, and capital punishment.  He also wrote a biweekly column in the Boston Herald on crime and justice issues, and overall has published over 200 columns in newspapers around the country, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribuune, Washington Post, Boston Gobe, and USA Today. As an authority on homicide, he appears regularly on national television and radio programs, including the Today Show, Meet the Press, Dateline, 20/20, 48 Hours and Oprah, and is frequently interviewed by the press. He was also profiled in a two-part cover story in USA Today, which described him as “arguably the nation’s foremost criminologist,” in feature stories in The New York Times and Scientific American as well as in other media outlets. He served as a consulting contributor for Fox News following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and as an NBC News Analyst during the D.C. Sniper investigation. Fox often gives lectures and expert testimony, including over one hundred keynote or campus-wide addresses around the country, fifteen appearances before the United States Congress, White House meetings with President and Mrs. Clinton and Vice President Gore on youth violence, private briefings to Attorney General Reno on trends in violence, and a presentation 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. Finally, he has served as a visiting fellow with the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics specializing in the measurement of homicide trends. 

James Alan Fox's Resume