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Pathfinder: Serial Killers
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications|Videos
SCOPE: The term serial killer is defined as three or more killings of unrelated victims with a distinct hiatus(or cooling off period ) separating each homicide. (Gotttesman, Violence in America) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for students in locating library resources on this topic. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing but as a selective sampling of the many types of materials available in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS:
Books dealing with serial killers are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:
Serial
murders United States
Murderers
United States Case Studies
Mass
murder History
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher (online database):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File REF HV 6525.S44 Women Serial and Mass Murderers: A Worldwide Reference, 1580 through 1990
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING COLLECTION
Bledsoe, Jerry. Bitter
Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness,
and Multiple Murder. New York: New American Library, 1989.
Cahill, Tim. Buried
Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.
Douglas, John E. Obession:
The FBI's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of
Killers, Rapists, and Stalkers and Their Victims and
Tells How to Fight. New York, New York: Scribner, 1998.
Egger, Steven A. Serial
Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1990.
Gruber, James E.
In the Company of Men: Male Dominance and Sexual
Harassment. Boston: Northeastern University Press,
2005. Heilbroner, David. Death
Benefit: A Lawyer Uncovers a Twenty-Year
Pattern on Seduction, Arson, and Murder. New York: Harmony Books, 1993.
Jenkins, Philip. Using
Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide. New York: A. de Gruyter, 1994.
Kelleher, Michael D. Murder
Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1998.
Michaud, Stephen G. Ted
Bundy: Conversations with a Killer. New York:
New American Library, 1989.
Norris, Joel. Serial
Killers: The Growing Menace. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Ressler, Robert K. Whoever
Fights Monsters. New York: St. Martins Press,
1992.
Van Hoffmann, Eric. A
Venom in the Blood. New York: Donald I Fine, 1990.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of serial killers are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
VIDEOS
Bloodwork DVD 63
Copycat
Video 713
Red Dragon
DVD 107
Silence of the Lambs
Video 457
Updated
02/08/2007
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