The Trouble With Blame – by: Sharon Lamb (1996)

I got this book hoping to find support for my belief that all blame is folly. Lamb turns out to be a feminist who attacks men in general throughout the book for victimizing women then causing women to blame themselves. Not quite what I had in mind, but maybe even better, since this book will no doubt help me understand better how „victims” think. (Lamb's observations wouldn't be so bad if she left feminism out of it, i. e. a male can suffer every inequity that a female suffers, so why be sexist?)

Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe – by: Miranda Aldhouse Green (2001, 2006)

I strongly suspect that capital punishment is, from an anthropological perspective, a modern form of human sacrifice exhibiting all the elements of the same in history. I ordered this book in order to investigate this suspicion. Green seems to, albeit unwittingly, support my suspicions.

How To Make A Serial Killer: The Twisted Development of Innocent Children into the World's Most Sadistic Murderers – by: Christopher Berry-Dee and Steven Morris (2006, 2008)

Another book recommended to me by my investigator (Michael). He said this book picks up where „Serial Killers” (ibid.) leaves off, explaining the psychological development of serial killers. Jenkins (ibid.) would argue.

Serial Killer – by: Joel Norris (1988)

This book is also refered to in „Using Murder” (ibid.) frequently. But I got it as a recommendation from my investigator (Michael) who thought that it had some valid points about „Serial Killer” psychology. But Jenkins (in „Using Murder”) cites this book in not such a favorable light. Kenkins book focusses on dispelling the myths and outright fabrications in books like „Serial Killer”.

Dandelion Wine – by: Ray Bradbury (1957, 1976)

The book „Using Murder” (ibid.) refers to this Bradbury classic as an illustration of how in the 1950's and '60's, „There was a sense that the multiple killer was a phenomenon that had definitely been relegated to the American past,” (p. 38-39). So I ordered the book to see for myself how this „sense” is portray by one of the great poets of our time.