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P.O. Box 414

Davis, CA 95617
 

Australia's Serial Killers: The Definitive History of Serial Multicide in Australia

Paul B. Kidd


Blood Red: Genesis of a Psychopath

Jack Osborne

Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception
Richard Rogers (Editor)

 

Cold Case Homicides: Practical Investigative Techniques

Richard H. Walton

Crime and the Human Mind
David Abrahamsen

Crime Classification Manual
John Douglas, Ann Burgess, Allen Burgess & Robert Ressler

 

Crime Reconstruction

W. Jerry Chisum & Brent Turvey

Crime Science : Methods of Forensic Detection
Joe Nickell, John F. Fischer

Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach
Curt R. Bartol

 

Criminal Investigation: A Practical Textbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers

Hans Gross

Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science
Richard Saferstein

Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis
Brent Turvey

 

Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice

Richard Kocsis

Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling
Maurice Godwin (Editor), Grover Maurice Godwin

Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and The Criminal Mind
Roy Hazelwood with Stephen Michaud

Death Investigation: The Basics
Brad Randall

Death Investigator's Handbook: A Field Guide to Crime Scene Processing, Forensic Evaluations, and Investigative Techniques
Louis Eliopulos

 

Death Scene Investigation: A Field Guide

Scott A. Wagner

 

Fingerprints: Analysis and Understanding

Mark R. Hawthorne

 

Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices

Anil Aggrawal

 

Forensic DNA Analysis: A Laboratory Manual

J. Thomas McClintock

Forensic DNA Typing: Biology & Technology Behind STR Markers
John M. Butler

Forensic Evaluation of Juveniles
Thomas Grisso

Forensic Pathology
Dominick Di Maio & Vincent Di Maio

Forensic Science: An Introduction To Criminalistics
Peter Deforest, Robert Gaensslen & Henry Lee
   
Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques
Stuart James & Jon Nordby (Editors)

Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior
Grover Maurice Godwin
                    
Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offender
Carla van Dam

I Have Lived in the Monster
Robert K. Ressler & Tom Shachtman

 

Illustrated Guide to Crime Scene Investigation

Nicholas Petraco & Hal Sherman

Interpretation of Bloodstain Evidence at Crime Scenes
Stuart James & William Eckert

Journey Into Darkness
John Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers
Pat Brown

Lethal Shadow
Stephen Michaud

Love Maps
John Money

Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offender
A. Nicholas Groth

Mind Hunter
John Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Monstrous: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer But For The Grace of God
Tommy Walker

Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer
Michael Kelleher & C.L. Kelleher

Obsession
John Douglas & Mark Olshaker

 

Offender Profiling and Crime Analysis

Peter Ainsworth

 

Physical Abusers and Sexual Offenders: Forensic and Clinical Strategies

Scott Allen Johnson

Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation : A Multidisciplinary Approach
Robert R. Hazelwood & Ann W. Burgess (Editors)

Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigation
Ross Gardner

Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques
Vernon J. Geberth

 

Practical Investigation of Sex Crimes: A Strategic and Operational Approach

Thomas P. Carney

Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists and Other Sex Offenders. Who They Are, How They Operate and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children
Anna Salter

Profiles in Murder: An FBI Legend Dissects Killers and Their Victims
Russell Vorpagel

Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool
Ronald Holmes & Stephen Holmes

Psychopathia Sexualis
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

 

Rape Investigation Handbook

Brent Turvey & John Savino

Serial Killers
Joel Norris

Serial Killers: The Insatiable Passion
David Lester

Serial Murder
Ronald M. Holmes & James De Burger

Serial Murderers and Their Victims
Eric W. Hickey

Serial Offenders: Current Thoughts, Recent Findings
Louis B. Schlesinger (Editor)

Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers

Robert D. Keppel & William J. Birnes

 

Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior
Stephen Holmes, Ronald Holmes

Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
D. Richard Laws & William O'Donohue (Editors)

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
Robert Ressler, Ann Burgess, & John Douglas

 

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides

Louis B. Schlesinger

 

Sex Murder and Sex Aggression: Phenomenology, Psychopathology, Psychodynamics and Prognosis
Eugene Revitch


Sexual Offender Treatment: Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Eli Coleman, Michael Miner (Editors)

Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives
Vernon J. Geberth

Signature Killers
Robert Keppel with William Birnes (Forward by Ann Rule)

 

Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict

Erin H. Kimmerle & Jose Pablo Baraybar

 

Soil Analysis in Forensic Taphonomy: Chemical and Biological Effects of Buried Human Remains

Mark Tibbett & David O. Carter

Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation
Barry A.J. Fisher

Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation (Interactive Training CD-ROM)
Jane Homeyer & Sarah Mikolajczyk

Ted Bundy : Conversations with a Killer
Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth

The Anatomy of Motive
John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
          
The Antisocial Personalities
David Lykken

The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Harold Schechter & David Everitt

The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopathy
Carl Gacono, Irving Weiner (Editor)

The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Michael Newton

The Evidence Never Lies: The Casebook of a Modern Sherlock Holmes
Alfred Allen Lewis with Herbert Leon MacDonell

The Evil That Men Do
Stephen Michaud with Roy Hazelwood

The Forensic Science of C.S.I.
Katherine Ramsland
 

The Juvenile Sex Offender

Howard Barbaree, William Marshall, Stephen Hudson (Editors)


The Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigation
Steven A. Egger

The Last Victim
Jason Moss with Jeffrey Kottler, Ph.D.

The Mask of Sanity
Hervey Cleckley

The Only Living Witness
Stephen Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth

The Practice of Crime Scene Investigation
John Horswell

 

The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths

Pat Brown

The Psychopathic Mind : Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment
J. Reid Meloy

The Psychology of Stalking : Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
J. Reid Meloy

The Psychopathology of Crime: Criminal Behavior as a Clinical Disorder
Adrian Raine

The Psychopathology of Serial Murder
                     Stephen J. Giannangelo                 

The Riverman : The Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
Robert D. Keppel, William J. Birnes (Contributor)
         
The Serial Killer Letters: A Penetrating Look Into the Minds of Murderers
Jennifer Furio

 

The Science of Criminal Profiling: All Killers Have Their Own Modus Operandi

Wayne Petherick

The Tower
Gregg A. Hurwitz

 

Time of Death, Decomposition and Identification: An Atlas

Jay Dix & Michael Graham

 

Tire Tread and Tire Track Evidence: Recovery and Forensic Examination

William J. Bodziak

To Kill Again: The Motivation and Development of Serial Murder
Donald J. Sears

Transforming Trauma: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Anna Salter

Trauma and Recovery
Judith Herman

Treating Child Sex Offenders and Victims: A Practical Guide
Anna Salter

Unanswered Cries
Thomas French

Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide
Philip Jenkins

Violence Risk and Threat Assessment
J. Reid Meloy

Violent Attachments
J. Reid Meloy

 

Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk

Vernon L. Quinsey, Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice, & Catherine A. Cormier

 

Vulture: Profiling Sadistic Serial Killers

Deborah Schurman-Kauflin

Whoever Fights Monsters
Robert K. Ressler & Tom Shachtman

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Robert Hare

Zodiac
Robert Graysmith


 

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