5215 Rockhill Road, Room 203
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Office Phone: 816-235-5955
Email: foxan@umkc.edu
Employment
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
August 2012-Present
Graduate Research Assistant/ Research Analyst August 2006 – August 2012
Arizona State University
Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Education
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ May 2013
Doctor of Philosophy in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Dissertation title: Examining the Effect of Gang Social Network Structures on Criminal
Behavior
Committee: Charles M. Katz (Chair), Michael D. White, Gary Sweeten
Arizona State University, Glendale, AZ May 2008
Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Thesis title: An Examination of Risk and Protective Factors, Drug Use, and Delinquency among Youth in Trinidad and Tobago
Point Loma Nazarene University , San Diego, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology - Criminal Justice
Graduated as Honors Scholar
Additional Training
May 2005
2009 Social Network Dynamics summer course taught by Tom Snijders
University of Kansas, Department of Quantitative Psychology
2010 Propensity score matching by Dr. Melissa Kovac
Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety, Arizona State University
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Peer-Reviewed Publications
2014 Fox, Andrew M., Charles M. Katz, David E. Choate & E. C. Hedberg (Accepted).
Evaluation of the Phoenix TRUCE Project: A replication of Chicago CeaseFire. Justice
Quarterly.
2013 Fox, Andrew M., Philip Mulvey, Charles M Katz & Michael Shafer. Untangling the relationship between mental health and homelessness among a sample of arrestees. Crime
& Delinquency.
Online first.
2012 Katz, Charles M., Andrew M. Fox , Chester L. Britt, & Phillip Stevenson. Understanding police gang data at the aggregate level: An examination of the reliability of National
Youth Gang Survey data. Justice Research and Policy, 14 (2), 103-128.
2012 White, Michael D., Philip Mulvey, Andrew M. Fox & David Choate.
A hero’s welcome?
Exploring the prevalence and problems of military veterans in the arrestee population .
Justice Quarterly , 29(2), 258-286.
2012 Cooper, Jonathan A., Andrew M. Fox & Nancy Rodriguez. Race, structural disadvantage, and illicit drug use among arrestees. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 12(1),
18-39.
2011 David R. Schaefer, Olga Kornienko & Andrew M. Fox . Misery does not love company:
Network selection mechanisms and depression homophily. American Sociological
Review , 76, 764-785.
2011 Katz, Charles M., Andrew M. Fox & Michael White. Assessing the relationship between illegal immigration, and drug use. Justice Quarterly , 28(4), 541-575.
2010 Fox, Andrew M.
& Nancy Rodriguez. Using a criminally-involved population to examine the relationship between race/ethnicity, structural disadvantage, and methamphetamine use .
C rime & Delinquency . (Online first)
2010 Pyrooz, David C., Andrew M. Fox , and Scott H. Decker. Racial and ethnic heterogeneity, economic disadvantage, and gangs: A macro-level study of gang membership in urban America. Justice Quarterly , 27(6), 867-892.
2010 Katz, Charles M. & Andrew M. Fox . Risk and protective factors associated with gang involved youth in Trinidad and Tobago . Pan-American Journal of Public Health , 27(3),
187-202.
2008 Johnson, D., King, W.R., Katz, C.M., Fox, A.M
., & Goulette, N. Youth perceptions of the police in Trinidad and Tobago. Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Public Safety,
13 (2), 217-253.
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Book Chapters
2012 Pyrooz, David C., Andrew M. Fox , Charles M. Katz, and Scott Decker. Gang organization, offending and victimization: A cross national analysis” In
Youth Gangs in
International Perspective , Edited by Finn Esbensen and Cheryl Maxson. Springer: New
York.
Research Reports
2014 Fox, Andrew M., Cher Stuewe-Portnoff (eds.), Kenneth Novak, Toya Like-Haislip, Lori
Sexton, Christine Carr, Tiffany McCall, Kristin Maziarka. Implementing a new strategy to reduce violence in Kansas City: An Implementation Report for Kansas City’s No
Violence Alliance . Kansas City, Mo: Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology,
University of Missouri-Kansas City.
2013 Fox, Andrew M., David E. Choate, Charles M. Katz, Eric C. Hedberg, & Shirin
Marvastian. Final Evaluation of the Phoenix TRUCE Project: A Replication of Chicago
Ceasefire. Arizona State University: Phoenix, Arizona.
2012 Charles, M. and Andrew Fox .
Comparative performance assessment of police organizations through arrestee perceptions and experiences. Phoenix, AZ: Center for Violence Prevention and
Community Safety, Arizona State University.
2012 Fox, Andrew M., Charles M. Katz, David Choate, Shirin Marvastian, and Jessica
Duncan. Social network analysis of gang members and associates in Glendale, Arizona .
Confidential report prepared for the Glendale Police Department.
2011 Fox, Andrew M., David E. Choate, Charles M. Katz, Eric C. Hedberg, & Shirin
Marvastian. Interim evaluation of the Phoenix TRUCE project: A replication of Chicago
CeaseFire . Arizona State University: Phoenix, Arizona.
2010 Katz, Charles, David Choate & Andrew M. Fox .
Understanding and Preventing Gang Membership in Trinidad and Tobago.
Arizona State
University: Phoenix, Arizona.
2009 Armstrong, Todd A., Jana Benson, Andrew M. Fox , Megan Gantly, Charles M. Katz,
Matthew J. Larson, Edward R. Maguire, Vincent J. Webb (authors alphabetically).
A safe schools report by the Trinidad and Tobago Violence Prevention Academy: 2008-
2009.
Prepared for the Minister of Education.
2008 Katz, Charles M. & Andrew M.
Fox
Trinidad and Tobago Youth Survey . Prepared for the Ministry of Education and the
Ministry of National Security in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
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2008 Choate, David E., Andrew M . Fox , & Charles M. Katz
Phoenix Police Department Off-Duty Employment Survey. Prepared for the Phoenix
Police Department.
Funded Grants and Contracts
2013-2016
Co-Principal Investigator.
Prospect Corridor Demonstration Project . Co-Principal
Investigator / Research Partner (Co-PI Kenneth Novak). Funded by Byrne Criminal
Justice Innovation (BCJI) Program, Bureau of Justice Assistance ($95,000).
2013-2014
Co-Principal Investigator.
Focused Deterrence and the Kansas City No Violence
Alliance . (Co-PI Kenneth Novak). Funded by the Smart Policing Initiative, Bureau of
Justice Assistance ($124,813).
2013 Co-Principal Investigator. KC NoVA Process Evaluation (Co-PI Kenneth Novak).
Funded by Kansas City Local Initiative Support Corporation ($45,128).
2013 Co-Principal Investigator. KC NoVA Social Network Analysis Intelligence Support (Co-
PI Kenneth Novak). Funded by City of Kansas City, Missouri ($30,000).
2013 Principal Investigator. KC NoVA Training on Social Network Analysis. Funded by
Kansas City, Missouri Police Department ($37,500).
2012-2013
Co-Principal Investigator. KC NoVA Evaluation and Intelligence Support (Co-PI
Kenneth Novak). Funded by Kansas City Local Initiative Support Corporation ($30,000).
2010-2012
Project Director for Department of Homeland Security funded project examining the organizational capacity of Central American Gangs. (Principal Investigator: Charles M.
Katz). Study sites include Los Angeles, Washington, D.C corridor, and El Salvador.
Department of Homeland Security/University of Arizona ($319,222).
2008-2010
Project Director for the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Project. (Principal
Investigator: Charles M. Katz; Co-Principal Investigator: Cassia Spohn). Ministry of
National Security of Trinidad and Tobago/George Mason University ($550,653).
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Invited Presentations
2013 Novak, Kenneth & Andrew M. Fox
Focused deterrence: What is it, has it been successful elsewhere and how can we do it?
Presented to Kansas City, Mo criminal justice agencies at the University of Missouri-
Kansas City.
2013 Katz, Charles M. Andrew M. Fox, Michael White & David Choate
The role of social network analysis in intelligence-led policing.
Smart Policing Initiative
Webinar, October 2013.
2013 Peters Baker, Jean, Joseph McHale, Tammy Dickinson & Andrew M. Fox
Kansas City No Violence Alliance Initiative . Presented at Missouri Attorney General’s
Urban Crime Summit.
2013 Novak, Kenneth & Andrew M. Fox
Targeting offenders and network analysis . Presented at the annual Southern Police
Institute Alumni Association Training Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2013 Fox, Andrew M.
Focusing law enforcement effort using social network analysis: An example from Kansas
City.
Presented to Phoenix metro area police departments.
2012 McHale, Joseph and Andrew M. Fox .
Kansas City No Violence Alliance . Presentation to the Kansas City Board of Police
Commissioners.
2012 Fox, Andrew M. and Jessica Duncan
Using social network analysis to identify important individuals in gang member networks . Presented to Glendale Police Department.
2009 Fox, Andrew M.
From mental health problems to homelessness: A path analysis among an arrestee population in Maricopa County. Arizona Arrestee Reporting Information Network
Symposium, 2009. Phoenix, AZ.
Conference Presentations
2014 Novak, Kenneth, Christine Carr, Andrew M. Fox & Joseph McHale.
The Kansas City (MO) Smart Policing Initiative: Focused deterrence and smart policing.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2013 Fox, Andrew M .
From the outside looking in: An examination of gang network position using law enforcement data.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Criminal Justice
Association, Chicago, Illinois.
2013 Fox, Andrew M . & Joseph McHale.
Using social network analysis for prevention, intervention and enforcement: The case of the Kansas City No Violence Alliance. Presented at the annual conference of the Mid-
American Regional Crime Analysis Network, Overland Park, Kansas.
2011 Katz, Charles M. & Andrew M. Fox .
The reliability of the NYGS data . Presented at the annual meeting of the American
Society of Criminology, Washington DC.
2011 Fox, Andrew M ., David E. Choate, Charles M. Katz, Eric C. Hedberg, & Shirin
Marvastian . Interim evaluation of the Phoenix TRUCE project: A replication of Chicago
CeaseFire.
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology,
Washington DC.
2011 Katz, Charles M. & Andrew M. Fox
Examining the scope and nature of gangs and gang problems in the US and Trinidad.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Vancouver, BC.
2010 Katz, Charles M. & Andrew M. Fox
Community structure, violent crime and concentrations of gang members at the neighborhood level in the Caribbean and the United States.
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, California.
2010 Andrew M. Fox
The space between gang members and non-gang members: A social network analysis of delinquent behavior . Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of
Criminology, San Francisco, California.
2010 Pyrooz, David C., Andrew M. Fox , Charles M. Katz, and Scott H. Decker
Investigating gang organization: Dimensionality and validity across multiple data source.
Presented at the tenth EuroGang workshop in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse,
Germany.
2010 Fox, Andrew M., David C. Pyrooz & Charles M. Katz
Unpacking the relationship between ethnicity, organization, delinquency, and gangs: A study on the ethnic homogeneity of gangs.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Western
Society of Criminology, Honolulu, HI.
2009 Katz, Charles M., Michael White & Andrew M. Fox
Examining the relationship between drug use and criminal aliens. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2009 Fox, Andrew M., Jonathan A. Cooper & Nancy Rodriguez
Meth is Different: Community and Individual Predictors of Drug Use Among Arrestees.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston,
Massachusetts.
2009 Fox, Andrew M.
, David Choate & Charles M. Katz
Patterns of victimization, drug use, and mental health problems among recently booked homeless arrestees. Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society of
Criminology, San Diego, California.
2008 Katz, Charles M. & Andrew M. Fox
Risk and protective factors associated with gang joining in the Caribbean. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, Missouri.
2008 Fox, Andrew M.
& Charles M. Katz
Toward an understanding of substance use among youth in Trinidad and Tobago.
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, St. Louis,
Missouri.
2007 Fox, Andrew M., Kristine Denholm, Danielle L. Evans & Nancy Rodriguez
The contribution of community level dynamics on methamphetamine use across the nation.
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Courses Taught
CRJ 302 Research Methods – SU08 at ASU
CRJ 303 Introduction to Statistics – SU09 at ASU
CJC 5511 Sociological Methods II (Quantitative Methods)- FA12 at UMKC
CJC 390
CJC 483
CJC 424
New Dimensions: Street Gangs – SP13/SP14 at UMKC
Research Methods – SP13/SP14 at UMKC
Death Penalty in America – FA13 at UMKC
Professional Affiliations
Midwestern Criminal Justice Association (2013 – present)
American Society of Criminology (2006- 2012)
Western Society of Criminology (2007- 2012)
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (2008- 2014)
Ad Hoc Reviewer: Justice Quarterly, Social Problems, Race and Social Problems, Social Science and Medicine
Advisory Board Member: Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona
State University
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