James Alan Fox is a Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy and former dean at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.
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.
As an authority on homicide, he appears regularly on national television and radio programs,[3] including the Today Show, Meet the Press, Dateline, 20/20, and 48 Hours.
[4] Fox often gives lectures and expert testimony, including more than a dozen appearances before the United States Congress, and White House meetings with the President.
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.