The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murders.
"James Alan Fox" is a professor of criminology at Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts)/Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. He is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice and former dean (education)/dean at Northeastern University. He has published 15 books and dozens of journal and magazine articles and newspaper columns. Fox holds a bachelor's degree in sociology (1972), a master's degree in criminology (1974), a master's degree in statistics (1975), and a Ph.D. in sociology (1976), all from the University of Pennsylvania.
Fox is known as "The Dean of Death," for his research on mass murders. USA Today says that "Fox is arguably the nation's leading criminologist." As an authority on homicide, he appears regularly on national television and radio programs, including the Today (NBC program)/Today Show, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC/Dateline, 20/20 (US television series)/20/20, and 48 Hours (TV series)/48 Hours. He has been a guest numerous times on The Oprah Winfrey Show/Oprah.
More James Alan Fox on Wikipedia.Most of these changes result from local conditions or random variation, ... it's not a rosy picture all around the country.
We've had eight wonderful years of declining crime rates, and at a certain point you just can't push those numbers further down, and we've hit that point.
In nighttime games, there's a much longer drinking period leading up to the game. The clientele going to day games is different than at night. Day games tend to draw more families.
We have made significant increases in providing shelters, hot lines and restraining orders to protect battered spouses and mandatory arrest for domestic violence incidents, ... And the largest beneficiaries have been men. The biggest drop is in women killing husbands.
These are the long-term positive repercussions of a lower crime rate, ... People see that streets are safer and are not as compelled to go out and buy a gun.
It takes more than just police. It takes lots of community resources. Hopefully the shootings will be a wake-up call.
The great successes we had a decade ago is gone. We let down our guard. The situation is not yet lost, but it could get much worse.
We don't solve the crime problem, we only control it. And we were controlling it until we let it get out of control.
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