James Alan Fox - The Will To Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder

James Alan Foxis the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University. He has published 18 books, dozens of journal and magazine articles, as well as hundreds of freelance columns in newspapers around the country, primarily in the areas of multiple murder, youth crime, school and campus violence, workplace violence, and capital punishment. As a member of its Board of Contributors, his opinion column appears frequently in USA Today. Fox often gives keynote talks and testimony before Congress and in criminal and civil court proceedings. He has briefed various leaders in the United States and abroad and has worked on criminal investigations of serial and mass murder cases. He also served as a visiting fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics focusing on homicide patterns and trends. He has received several awards and honors for his work, including the Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital punishment scholarship.Jack Levinis the Brudnick Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Northeastern University, where he codirects its Center on Violence and Conflict. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 books, most recently The Violence of Hate and Hate Crime: A Global Perspective. Levin has also published more than 250 articles and columns in professional journals, books, magazines, and newspapers, such as the New York Times, London Sunday Times, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and USA Today. Levin was honored by the Massachusetts Council for Advancement and Support of Education as its Professor of the Year and by the American Sociological Association for his contributions to the public understanding of sociology. He has also received awards from the Eastern Sociological Society, New England Sociological Association, Association of Clinical and Applied Sociology, and Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has spoken to a wide variety of community, academic, and professional groups, including the White House Conference on Hate Crimes, the Department of Justice, OSCEs Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (a membership of 59 countries), and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.Kenna Quinetis an associate professor of criminal justice in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She is also a certified medico-legal death investigator and deputy coroner at the Marion County Coroners Office. Her research interests include homicide, missing persons, causes of death, and unidentified and unclaimed dead. Quinet teaches homicide courses as well as an animal rights course at IUPUI and has won more than 15 teaching awards. Since 1992 she has worked closely with law enforcement, including the evaluation of community policing initiatives and drug interdiction, and has provided more than 80 media interviews. Since 2010 she has served as an Indiana representative for NamUs, the national missing and unidentified persons system.