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James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology Law and Public Policy

Northeastern University

Affiliations

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

James Alan Fox is currently serving as a College Of Social Sciences And Humanities Lipman Family Professor of Criminology Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University.

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James Alan Fox

Northeastern University

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology Law and Public Policy

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criminology public health social sciences statistics homicide violent behavior psychology criminal justice interpersonal violence correctional practice penology security studies criminal law media studies forensic psychology victimology mass murder violence against women crime forecasting crime analysis violent crime united states mass public shootings human behavior jurisprudence forecasting family violence narrative thanatology juvenile delinquency public safety domestic violence higher education death studies theoretical criminology school violence sampling crisis management psychological trauma genocide workplace violence risk communication urban security crime prevention sociological research adolescent psychology adolescence criminological theory news analytics multiple homicide randomized response multiple imputation crime data serial murder juvenile violence fire safety school psychology social science research economic psychology behavior analysis occupational safety work safety workplace conflict organizational safety demographic forecasting prevalence later adulthood population aging fake news quantitative criminology future rates gender differences extreme killing sensitive measurements senseless murder workplace homicide

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Women Who Kill: An Exploratory Analysis of Female-Perpetrated Mass Shootings. Deviant Behavior (2025)

violence against womenviolent crimedeviance (sociology)sociologyviolent behaviorgender studiesfemale criminalityfeminist criminologyinterpersonal violence

Public Mass Shootings: Counterfactual Trend Analysis of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. CrimRxiv (2024)

Alex Lars LundbergJames Alan FoxHassan MohammadMaryann MasonDoreen SalinaDavid VictorsonRuben Parra-CardonaLori Ann Post

public mass shootingsviolence against womencriminologyviolent behaviorsocial sciencesregulatory approvalinterpersonal violencepublic opinioncounterfactual trend analysisdating violenceempirical case studiesfederal assault weaponsvictimologyfamily violencesafety sciencecriminal lawstigmapublic healthpublic policydisparate impactsecurity studies

Review of All-American Massacre: The Tragic Role of American Culture and Society in Mass Shootings. Journal of Criminal Justice Education (2024)

James Alan Fox

cultural studiesamerican literatureviolent behaviorculturemass shootingsearly american literatureamerican political thoughtmedia studiesjournalismurban sociologynarrativewhite supremacysociologytragic roleamerican identityamerican culturestigmaall-american massacrecriminal justicehomicidewestern american literaturesocietal influence

Twenty Years Later: The Federal Assault Weapons Ban Curtailed Public Mass Shootings (Preprint). JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (2024)

Alex LundbergJames A. FoxHassan MohammadMaryann MasonDavid VictorsonRuben Parra-CardonaLori A. Post

public mass shootingslawpublic safetypublic healthjurisprudencepublic policy

Trends in U.S. Mass Shootings: Facts, Fears and Fatalities. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2023)

James Alan Fox

victimologyurban sociologytraumaviolence against womencrime forecastingfamily violencecrime analysispenologysociologycriminologyviolent behaviorcriminal justicehomicidesocial sciencesmedia studiesperformance studiessecurity studiesinterpersonal violence

Averting Tragedy: An Exploration of Thwarted Mass Public Shootings Relative to Completed Attacks. Criminal Justice Review (2022)

Michael RocqueMadison GerdesJames Alan FoxGrant DuweMadeline Clark

criminologycriminal justicepublic healthcrime prevention

Does Media Coverage of Mass Public Shootings Create a Contagion Effect?. Significance (2022)

James Alan FoxNathan E. SandersEmma E. FridelGrant DuweMichael Rocque

communicationmass communicationmedia coveragecontagion effecthealth communicationcriminologypublic healthrisk communicationmedia studiesjournalismmass public shootings

Estimating the Global Prevalence of Mass Public Shootings. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2022)

Grant DuweNathan E. SandersMichael RocqueJames Alan Fox

statisticspenologycriminologypublic healthglobal prevalencemass public shootingscomparative criminologyepidemiology

Keeping With Tradition: Preference for the Longstanding Definition of Mass Shooting. Journal of Mass Violence Research (2022)

James FoxEmma Fridel

criminologymass shootingpublic healthpublic policylongstanding definition

Correction to: Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States. Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2021)

Grant DuweNathan E. SandersMichael RocqueJames Alan Fox

crime forecastingunited statespenologyforecastingcriminologypublic healthmass public shootingsjournalism

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James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology Law and Public Policy

Northeastern University

Affiliations

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

James Alan Fox is currently serving as a College Of Social Sciences And Humanities Lipman Family Professor of Criminology Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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James Alan Fox

Northeastern University

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology Law and Public Policy

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Video Presentations

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Women Who Kill: An Exploratory Analysis of Female-Perpetrated Mass Shootings. Deviant Behavior (2025)

violence against womenviolent crimedeviance (sociology)sociologyviolent behaviorgender studiesfemale criminalityfeminist criminologyinterpersonal violence

Public Mass Shootings: Counterfactual Trend Analysis of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. CrimRxiv (2024)

Alex Lars LundbergJames Alan FoxHassan MohammadMaryann MasonDoreen SalinaDavid VictorsonRuben Parra-CardonaLori Ann Post

Review of All-American Massacre: The Tragic Role of American Culture and Society in Mass Shootings. Journal of Criminal Justice Education (2024)

James Alan Fox

Twenty Years Later: The Federal Assault Weapons Ban Curtailed Public Mass Shootings (Preprint). JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (2024)

Alex LundbergJames A. FoxHassan MohammadMaryann MasonDavid VictorsonRuben Parra-CardonaLori A. Post

public mass shootingslawpublic safetypublic healthjurisprudencepublic policy

Trends in U.S. Mass Shootings: Facts, Fears and Fatalities. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2023)

James Alan Fox

Averting Tragedy: An Exploration of Thwarted Mass Public Shootings Relative to Completed Attacks. Criminal Justice Review (2022)

Michael RocqueMadison GerdesJames Alan FoxGrant DuweMadeline Clark

criminologycriminal justicepublic healthcrime prevention

Does Media Coverage of Mass Public Shootings Create a Contagion Effect?. Significance (2022)

James Alan FoxNathan E. SandersEmma E. FridelGrant DuweMichael Rocque

communicationmass communicationmedia coveragecontagion effecthealth communicationcriminologypublic healthrisk communicationmedia studiesjournalismmass public shootings

Estimating the Global Prevalence of Mass Public Shootings. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (2022)

Grant DuweNathan E. SandersMichael RocqueJames Alan Fox

statisticspenologycriminologypublic healthglobal prevalencemass public shootingscomparative criminologyepidemiology

Keeping With Tradition: Preference for the Longstanding Definition of Mass Shooting. Journal of Mass Violence Research (2022)

James FoxEmma Fridel

criminologymass shootingpublic healthpublic policylongstanding definition

Correction to: Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States. Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2021)

Grant DuweNathan E. SandersMichael RocqueJames Alan Fox

crime forecastingunited statespenologyforecastingcriminologypublic healthmass public shootingsjournalism

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