James Fox is a Criminal Justice professor at Northeastern University rated 3.2/5 by 35 students, with 3.5/5 difficulty and 100.0% who would take them again (TRACE + RateMyProfessors + Reddit, updated July 2026).
James Fox professor reviews and ratings: 3.2/5 from 35 student reviews at Northeastern (100.0% would take again). TRACE + RateMyProfessor + Reddit.
He is an amazing professor! He tells real life stories and experiences in the field that we are covering. He states statistics, reads from a textbook, understanding with absences and missed homework, easy grader, engages with the class and never keeps the class for the full time. He is great and would DEFINITELY take his class again!ALLALL 2022-12-08 16:53:01 +0000 UTC
Jamie is a great professor who is good at explaining statistics even to those of us who aren't considered "good at math." Very helpful and the workload was fair. Read the textbook, do practice questions and go to the recitation sessions and you will get a good grade.LPSC7305 2016-01-14 14:20:19 +0000 UTC
Terrible. Just terrible experience. Northeastern should reconsider his job.LPSC7000 2013-05-13 09:58:21 +0000 UTC
I have to agree, absolutely terrible. His arrogance and condescension when answering students' questions prevented me from asking any questions.LPSC7345 2009-12-22 19:09:06 +0000 UTC
Very Smart guy, terrible professor!!!LPDCPS 2009-10-29 15:23:21 +0000 UTC
Interesting class, sometimes quite disturbing...his midterm and final are worth a lot so you can't afford to do poorly. His class seems easy but the test are hard..unless you pay attention to every little thing he says and read everything and memorize everything for the midterm then the final you should be all set.CJU570 2008-01-05 20:41:36 +0000 UTC
Fox has a tendancy to be a bit self-indulgent. Sometimes goes off on tangents either about himself or leftist political agenda's that have nothing to do w/the class, a bit annoying. Go to the classes, every now and then he has you do summaries of his lecture, which are worth points.CJU50 2007-01-05 22:20:08 +0000 UTC
Fox is an amazing professor. He's highly animated, funny, knowledgable, and well-known in the CJ world. I LOVED this class. Every day was so interesting. I agree that his tests were hard (but fair), and each one was worth 20%. Just write everything you remember him saying about the topic. Read all of the material. Good luck!CRIMVIOLENCE 2006-05-17 19:27:27 +0000 UTC
This class was awesome. Grading was based on 40% two exams, 40% two papers, 20% lecture summary, and forum participation. I thought the grading was very fair, but I'm not sure how he graded other semesters. It is true you need to be on point with your exam answers though. Also depends on your TA, we got lucky. Material is by far though THE BESTCRIMINALVIOLEN 2006-04-28 04:05:12 +0000 UTC
This class was amazing, and wicked hard. class flew by, but the tests were impossibleHOMOCIDE 2005-09-23 09:27:23 +0000 UTC
Tough grader, in class he says it will weigh out at the end of the year to avoid the heat, it doesn't, low class averages, and very redundent... He will hurt your GPAVIOLENCE 2005-04-25 21:16:16 +0000 UTC
boring to sit through class. no break give during long lecturesCJG206 2005-04-09 10:15:04 +0000 UTC
The serial killers class was the highlight of my years at NUSERIALKIL 2004-06-24 10:22:57 +0000 UTC
Best class I ever took, Jamie Fox is a great professor. I waited untill my senior year to take this class and it was well worth it, if you have a good CJ background and enjoy serial killers, youll LOVE this classCRIMVIOL 2004-06-21 12:38:14 +0000 UTC
The absolute worst professor in CJ. Arogant and vile. If it's not his way, it's no way.ALLALL 2008-11-02 01:25:10 +0000 UTC
James Fox has an average rating of 3.2/5 from 35 student reviews. 100.0% of students said they would take them again.
James Fox's classes have a difficulty rating of 3.5/5 based on student reviews.
James Fox has taught INSH6500, CRIM3700, CRIM7404, LPSC7305, CRIM1000, CRIM7206 at Northeastern.
Data updated July 2026.