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Serious crime drops again

...cities, 12 percent in suburbs and 17 percent in rural areas. Like Blumstein, Professor James Alan Fox of Northeastern University in Boston noted smaller crime declines in the largest cities. ''They will be the first to reach the bottom...

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Homicide-suicides incidents increase

...involves strangers, and the victim is usually shot. James A. Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, said many people who kill themselves after a homicide are overwhelmed by guilt and don't want to spend...

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Graduation rates hold steady among college athletes

...the black male student body. Richard Lapchick, head of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston, said the figures on black athletes are encouraging.

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Serious crime drops in Twin Cities

...crime nationwide -- have trickled down to the Twin Cities, said James Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Fox said there is a tendency to cut police budgets and crime prevention programs in times of economic hardship...

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Rural Georgia college pushes for iPod ingenuity

...questioning and challenging of assumptions, said Donna Qualters, director of the Center for Effective Teaching at Northeastern University in Boston. Those cannot be duplicated on an iPod you have to be there to experience that learning. GCSU officials...

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Tech
Tourists squeeze in one last summer outing

...Point locale with some friends for a last Minnesota weekend before she had to leave for her first year at Northeastern University in Boston. The chamber's welcome center is a brief oasis for the weary motorist and it's never quiet for very...

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Eight-year-long crime decline may slow soon

...9 11 "The big cities are reaching their limit" in crime reduction, said Professor James Alan Fox of Northeastern University in Boston. The murder totals are considered the most reliable figures in the FBI report and a leading indicator of...

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Youth homicide rates decline, FBI report shows

...population that had been most affected by gangs, guns and drugs," said James A. Fox, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has authored 15 books on crime and violence. "The rate of homicides for young black men tripled from...

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Nation's longest crime decline levels out in 2000

...six-month period last year. "The 1990s crime drop has ended with the 1990s," said professor James Alan Fox of Northeastern University in Boston. "This is the criminal justice limbo stick, we just can't go any lower. We've had eight straight...

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Crime rate levels off after decade of decline, signaling end to historic crime decrease

...There are reasons to be concerned about the future," said James Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University in Boston. "Our goal should no longer be to bring down the crime rate. It should be to make sure the crime rate...

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