Jack McDevitt, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, also directs the Institute on Race and Justice. Jack is the coauthor, with Jack Levin, of Hate Crimes Revisited, as well as coauthor of numerous governmental reports, including “Improving the Accuracy of Bias Crimes Statistics Nationally”, which was released by the White House in 2000. He has been teaching and conducting research at Northeastern University for almost two decades.

Nikos Passas, Professor of Criminal Justice, is conducting groundbreaking research on international money laundering. His work, sponsored through the National Institute of Justice, examines the channels terrorists use to funnel money into their violent activities, including smuggling, invoice manipulation, and trade diversion. To uncover illegal transfer of funds to terrorist networks, Passas looks for irregular patterns in international trade. For instance, the discovery that some U.S. importers pay more for scrap gold than for pure gold could indicate money laundering or fraud. “In the end, we hope to make a significant contribution toward a fact-based and sensible fight on terror,” he says.

James Alan Fox, Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice, is one of the nation’s leading scholars on serial murder. He appears regularly on national television and radio, including the Today Show, Dateline, and 20/20, and has testified before the United States Congress more than a dozen times. Among other roles, he served as a consulting contributor to Fox News after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and as an NBC News analyst during the Washington, D.C., sniper investigation. Fox has published fifteen books, including The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder and Dead Lines: Essays in Murder and Mayhem. He has also published dozens of articles on topics such as multiple murder, juvenile crime, school violence, and capital punishment.

Natasha Frost, Assistant Professor, focuses her research and teaching interests in the area of punishment and social control. Specifically, she is interested in punitiveness (both individual and state level), formal and informal social control, and the effects of incarceration and re-entry on individuals, families, and communities. Professor Frost was recently named Associate Editor of Criminology & Public Policy, a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between criminological knowledge and criminal justice policy and practice.