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James Alan Fox

Criminal Justice

#17

World Rank

#24

Historical Rank

#15

USA Rank

Criminology

#19

World Rank

#25

Historical Rank

#12

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James Alan Fox

Sociology

#502

World Rank

#609

Historical Rank

#229

USA Rank

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James Alan Fox's Degrees

PhD Criminology University of Pennsylvania
Masters Criminology University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Sociology American University

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According to Wikipedia, James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy and former dean at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Fox holds a bachelor's degree in sociology , a master's degree in criminology , a master's degree in statistics , and a Ph.D. in sociology , all from the University of Pennsylvania.

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James Alan Fox's Published Works

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Published Works

The Settlement of the Americas: A Comparison of the Linguistic, Dental, and Genetic Evidence [and Comments and Reply] (1986) (575)
Elementary Statistics in Social Research (1974) (215)
Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder (2005) (184)
Multiple Homicide: Patterns of Serial and Mass Murder (1998) (183)
Mass Shootings in America (2014) (178)
TRENDS IN JUVENILE VIOLENCE A Report to the United States Attorney General on Current and Future Rates of Juvenile Offending (1996) (151)
Randomized Response: A Method for Sensitive Surveys (1986) (150)
Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace (1985) (135)
The Validity of Randomized Response for Sensitive Measurements (1981) (117)
Mass Murder Goes to College (2009) (110)
America's After-School Choice: The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime, or Youth Enrichment and Achievement. (2000) (86)
Mass Murder: An Analysis of Extreme Violence (2003) (81)
Firing Back: The Growing Threat of Workplace Homicide (1994) (72)
Overkill: Mass Murder and Serial Killing Exposed (1994) (71)
Multiple Imputation of the Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976–2005 (2009) (71)
Location and other correlates of campus crime (1985) (71)
Missing Data Problems in the SHR (2004) (65)
Deadly Demographics: Population Characteristics and Forecasting Homicide Trends (2003) (63)
HOMICIDE AGAINST THE ELDERLY: A RESEARCH NOTE* (1991) (49)
Methods in quantitative criminology (1983) (48)
Forecasting crime data (1978) (46)
Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool through College (2010) (42)
Elementary Statistics In Social Research: The Essentials (2003) (41)
Uniform Crime Reports [United States]: Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2003 (2005) (37)
The Nature and Prevalence of Familicide in the United States, 2000–2009 (2013) (35)
Randomized Response and Related Methods: Surveying Sensitive Data (2015) (34)
The Devil Made Me Do It (2008) (32)
The Crime Drop in America: Demographics and U.S. Homicide (2005) (31)
Measuring associations with randomized response (1984) (29)
Forecasting crime data : an econometric analysis (1981) (27)
After-School Crime or After-School Programs: Tuning in to the Prime Time for Violent Juvenile Crime and Implications for National Policy. A Report to the United States Attorney General. (1997) (27)
A measure of skewness in offense distributions (1988) (26)
Anatomy of the Homicide Rise (2019) (25)
Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research (1998) (24)
The Randomized Response Approach (1980) (24)
Models in quantitative criminology (1981) (23)
Homicide Trends in the United States: 2000 Update (2003) (22)
Proto-Mayan accent, morpheme structure conditions, and velar innovations (1978) (20)
Report for the Campus Safety and Violence Prevention Work Group Campus Violence Prevention and Response: Best Practices for Massachusetts Higher Education (2008) (19)
A FIELD EXPERIMENT ON INSURANCE FRAUD IN AUTO BODY REPAIR (1989) (19)
Crime Trends and Police Expenditures (1979) (18)
The relation between state gun laws and the incidence and severity of mass public shootings in the United States, 1976-2018. (2020) (18)
The Menace of School Shootings in America (2018) (17)
Persistent Flaws in Econometric Studies of the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty (1989) (14)
The identification and estimation of deterrence: An evaluation of yunker's model (1977) (13)
Unemployment and Crime: An Objection to Professor Brenner's View (1980) (12)
Fueling a Contagion of Campus Bloodshed. (2008) (12)
The Randomized Response Technique (1986) (11)
Normalcy in Behavioral Characteristics of the Sadistic Serial Killer (2008) (11)
The Newsworthiness of Mass Public Shootings: What Factors Impact the Extent of Coverage? (2020) (11)
Campus Shootings: A Prevention Primer. (2008) (10)
Serial Murder: Myths and Realities (1999) (10)
Too Few Victims: Finding the Optimal Minimum Victim Threshold for Defining Serial Murder (2017) (9)
The Contagion of Mass Shootings: The Interdependence of Large-Scale Massacres and Mass Media Coverage (2021) (8)
Making Sense of Mass Murder (1999) (7)
How To Work With The Media (1993) (6)
2. Classic Maya Dynastic Alliance and Succession (1986) (6)
Guns, School Shooters, and School Safety: What We Know and Directions for Change (2021) (6)
Elementary Statistics in Behavioral Research (1994) (6)
BLURRING FAME AND INFAMY: A Content Analysis of Cover-Story Trends in People Magazine* (2005) (6)
Explaining Mass Shootings (2016) (4)
Perceived Structure of Aggressive and Assertive Behaviors (1979) (4)
Trends in Juvenile Violence: 1997 Update (1997) (4)
Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder (2017) (4)
The quantitative study of serial murder: Regression is not transgression (2019) (4)
Crazy Like a Fox (1994) (4)
Correction to: Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States (2021) (4)
The Troubled Student and Campus Violence: Creating Better Safety Catches. (2008) (3)
Campuses Following Virginia Tech Mass Murder Goes to College: An Examination of Changes on College (2013) (3)
Capitol Hill Mass Murder Case (2007) (3)
Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace. (1986) (3)
Murder they wrote. (1990) (3)
Kinship Terminology and Social Process: Two Mayan Etymologies (1985) (3)
Reexamining Some Perils of Quantification in the Econometric Study of Crime (1982) (2)
Fighting City Hall (1994) (2)
Take Good Care of My Baby (1994) (1)
White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Errol (1984) (1)
Applications of Randomized Response Methods (1986) (1)
Making Monsters into Celebrities: Popular Culture Is Saturated with Images of Infamy (2008) (1)
Lessons from Wolfgang (1998) (1)
Remembering the Launch of JQC, 1985–1991 (2010) (1)
Reaffirming the Viability of the Randomized Response Approach (1981) (1)
Surveying Sensitive Topics (1986) (1)
Guest Editor's Introduction (1989) (0)
Correction to: Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States (2021) (0)
Demography and Death by Violence (2001) (0)
I Hate You to Death (1994) (0)
Linguistics: The Mobilian Trade Language. James M. Crawford (1980) (0)
The E tymology of Quichean Kumaȼ Snake and the Linguistic Affi liaction of the Omlec (1979) (0)
Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz: The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (2018) (0)
From the editor (1986) (0)
From the editor (1990) (0)
Averting Tragedy: An Exploration of Thwarted Mass Public Shootings Relative to Completed Attacks (2022) (0)
Gory without Glory (1994) (0)
Alternatives to Randomized Response (2016) (0)
Does media coverage of mass public shootings create a contagion effect? (2022) (0)
Crime Statistics and the Media (2021) (0)
The Postman Always Shoots Twice (1994) (0)
Design Considerations in Randomized Response (2016) (0)
Introductory statement (1956) (0)
Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States (2021) (0)
A Why did the US crime rate fall in the 1990 s ? Evaluation lessons from a cause celebre (2010) (0)
An Anatomy of Serial Murder (1994) (0)
Extensions of Randomized Response (2016) (0)
From the editor (1986) (0)
From the editor (1987) (0)
Murder without Guilt (1994) (0)
For Love, Money, or Revenge (1994) (0)
Analyzing Randomized Response Data (2016) (0)
Remembering All the Victims (1994) (0)
Mesoamerican Writing Systems: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 30th and 31st, 1971. Elizabeth P. Benson (1977) (0)
From the editor (1989) (0)
EBOOK : Elementary Statistics in Social Research, 12th Edition (2014) (0)
Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz: The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (2018) (0)
Till Death Do Us Part (1994) (0)
Mass Murder in America: Trends, Characteristics, Explanations, and Policy Response (2021) (0)
From the editor (1988) (0)
The Etymology of Quichean Kumaȼ Snake and the Linguistic Affiliaction of the Omlec (1979) (0)
How To Work with the Media. Survival Skills for Scholars, Volume 2. (1993) (0)
Stay With Me (2013) (0)
From the editor (1991) (0)

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