James Alan Fox

James Alan Fox is The Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and former dean at Northeastern University in Boston. He has published fifteen books, including his two newest, "The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder", and "Dead Lines: Essays in Murder and Mayhem". He has also published dozens of journal, magazine articles and newspaper columns, primarily in the areas of multiple murder, juvenile crime, school violence, workplace violence and capital punishment.

As an authority on homicide, he appears regularly on national television and radio programs, including the "Today" show, "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 dubbed him "The Dean of Death", in a "Scientific American" feature story as well as in other media outlets.

Fox often gives lectures and expert testimony, including over one hundred keynote or campus-wide addresses around the country, ten 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, Fox is a visiting fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice.