For the Record #3: Serial Killers

Here’s a list of some (but not all) of the interesting writings touching on the subject of serial killers and their crimes that I read whilst working on Serial Killers: Crimes of the Century.

Update: I managed to win myself a copy of David Canter‘s excellent-looking new Forensic Psychology For Dummies via Twitter which is both a rare and timely treat. So, thank you David and I take great pleasure in adding it here and looking forward to being educated above my FP-dummy level.

Serial Killers

Mike Aamodt (2011) Serial Killers. Unpublished presentation.

Alison Abbott (2001) Into the mind of a killer. Nature 410, 296-298.

Alison Abbott (2007) Abnormal neuroscience: Scanning psychopaths. Nature 450, 942-944.

Kent Bailey (1987) Human Paleopsychology: Applications to Aggression and Pathological Processes. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mark Benecke et al. (2005) Two homosexual pedophile sadistic serial killers: Jürgen Bartsch (Germany, ∗1946 – †1976) and Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (Colombia, ∗1957). Minerva Medicolegale 125: 153-69.

Christopher Berry-Dee (2003) Talking With Serial Killers: the Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories. Blake.

Christopher Berry-Dee (2006) Talking With Serial Killers 2: the World’s Most Evil Killers Tell Their Stories. Blake.

David M Buss (2006) The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill. Penguin.

David M Buss & Joshua D. Duntley (2002) Murder by Design: The Evolution of Homicide. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (under review).

David D. Canter (2012) Forensic Psychology For Dummies. Wiley.

Jane Caputi (1990) The New Founding Fathers: The Lore and Lure of the Serial Killer in Contemporary Culture. Journal of American Culture 13: 1-12.

Jane Caputi (1993) American Psychos: The Serial Killer in Contemporary Fiction. Journal of American Culture 16: 101-112.

Lori Carangelo (2003) Chosen Children: Billion Dollar Babies in America’s Foster Care, Adoption & Prison Systems. Access Press,

Eamonn Carrabine, Maggy Lee, Ken Plummer, Nigel South & Paul Iganski (2004) Criminology: A Sociological Introduction. Routledge.

Rodney Castleden (2011) Great Unsolved Crimes: Getting Away With Murder. Canary.

Heng Choon Chan, Kathleen M. Heide & Eric Beauregard (2010) What Propels Sexual Murderers: A Proposed Integrated Theory of Social Learning and Routine Activities Theories. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. doi:10.1177/0306624X10361317.

Loren Coleman (2004) The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines. Pocket Books.

Gerald A. Cory & Russell Gardner (eds) (2002) The Evolutionary Neuroethology of Paul Maclean: Convergences and Frontiers. Greenwood Press.

L. Perry Curtis, Jr (2001) Jack the Ripper and the London Press. Yale University Press.

Martin Daly & Margo Wilson (1988) Homicide. Aldine de Gruyter.

Charles Darwin (1872) The expression of the emotions in man and animals. John Murray.

J.F. Derry (2009) Darwin in Disguise. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 73-79.

Jared Diamond (1997) Why is Sex Fun? Perseus.

Leah Dilworth (2003) Acts of Possession: Collecting in America. Rutgers University Press.

Joshua Duntley & David M. Buss (2006) The evolution of murder. Unpublished.

FBI (2005) Serial Murder: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators. US Department of Justice.

David John Frank, Bayliss J. Camp & Steven A. Boutcher (2010) Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005. American Sociological Review 75: 867–89.

Vernon J. Geberth (2003) The Investigative Significance of Fantasy in Sex-Related Incidents. In: Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives. CRC Press.

Vernon J. Geberth (2008) Fantasy Drawings and Their Significance in Criminal Investigative Analysis. Law and Order 56(10).

Grover Maurice Godwin (1999) Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior. CRC Press.

Kevin D. Haggerty (2009) Modern Serial Killers. Crime, Media and Culture 5:168-187.

Christopher Hitchins (2006) As American as Apple Pie. In: Arguably (2011). Atlantic Books.

Brin Hodgskiss (2004) Lessons from Serial Murder in South Africa. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling 1: 67–94.

Dan Jones (2008) Human behaviour: Killer instincts. Nature 451, 512-515.

Theodore J. Kaczynski (2008) The Road to Revolution. Xenia.

Jane Mersky Leder (2006) Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex and World War II. Praeger.

Samuël J.-J. Leistedt, Paul Linkowski & Xavier Bongaerts (2011) The Myth of Virginity: The Case of a Franco-Belgian Serial Killer. Journal of Forensic Science 56: 1064-1071.

Samantha Lundrigan & David Canter (2001) Spatial Patterns of Serial Murder: An Analysis of Disposal Site Location Choice. Behavioural Sciences and the Law, 19, 595.

David McGowan (2004) Programmed To Kill: the Politics of Serial Murder. iUniverse.

William Murray (2007) Serial Killers: Notorious Killers Who Lived Among Us. Canary Press.

George Orwell (1949) 1984. Secker and Warburg.

Patricia Polledri (1997) Forensic psychotherapy with a potential serial killer. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 13(4).

N.L. Rempel-Clower (2007) Role of orbitofrontal cortex connections in emotion. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1121: 72-86.

Patricia Polledri (1997) Forensic Psychotherapy with a Potential Serial Killer. British Journal of Psychotherapy 13: 473-488.

Jon Ronson (2011) The Psychopath Test. Picador.

Judith Rowbotham & Kim Stevenson (2005) Criminal conversations: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage. Ohio State University Press.

Jan Ruis (2008) Statistical analysis of the birth charts of serial killers. Correlation 25: 7-44.

J. Philippe Rushton (2000) Race, Evolution & Behavior: A Life History Perspective. Charles Darwin Research Inst Pr.

Harold Schechter (1989) DEVIANT: The Shocking True Story of the Original “Psycho”. Pocket Books.

Harold Schechter (2003) The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers. Ballantine Books.

Brent Snook et al. (2007) Taking Stock of Criminal Profiling: A Narrative Review and Meta-Analysis. Criminal Justice and Behavior 34, 437.

Sandie Taylor, Daniel Lambeth, Georga Green, Rachael Bone & Marie A. Cahillane (2011) Cluster Analysis Examination of Serial Killer Profiling Categories: A Bottom-Up Approach. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, DOI: 10.1002/jip.149.

Kenna Quinet ( 2011) Prostitutes as Victims of Serial Homicide: Trends and Case Characteristics, 1970-2009. Homicide Studies 15: 74-100.

Johan Andrew de Wet (2004) A Psychological Perspective on the Personality Development of the Serial Murderer. University of Pretoria.

Colin Wilson (2007) Serial Killer Investigations: The Story of Forensics and Profiling Through the Hunt for the World’s Worst Murderers. Summersdale.

David Wilson (2009) A History of British Serial Killing. Sphere.

David Wilson & Paul Harrison (2010) The Lost British Serial Killer. Sphere.

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924) We. Penguin Books.

Emile Zola (1890) La Bête Humaine (The Beast Within) – Les Rougon-Macquart no.17. Charpentier.