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Dr.
James Alan Fox, Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and
former dean at
Northeastern University in Boston, presents six incredible lectures on
criminology, serial killers, and violence...
- Killing
for Pleasure: Serial Killers Among Us
A chilling examination of the minds, motives and capture of infamous
serial killers of
our time.
- Overkill:
Shooting Rampages in America
Workplace avengers, family annihilators, and schoolyard snipers–more
methodical
than imagined.
- Lessons
from the Schoolyard: Youth and School Violence
A look at the causes of youth and school violence, including an assessment
of the
easy solutions that don’t work and the difficult ones that do.
- Dial M
for Media: Violence and Popular Culture
A critical discussion of violent themes in television, film, and video
games and the
commercialization of killing.
- Angry
and Dangerous: The Do’s and Don’ts of Disgruntlement
A guide to understanding vengeance in many work settings and how best
to identify
and respond to problem people and places.
- American
Terror: From the Columbine Killers to the DC Snipers
An analysis of common themes to various home-grown forms of terror.
Including serial
murder, school violence, child abductions, and workplace violence.
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. 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. 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, twelve 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. Finally, Fox is a visiting fellow with
the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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