Publications

Books

Serial Murderers and Their Victims

5th Edition
Thomson/Wadsworth Publishing Company (ITP)
Belmont, California. (2010).
410 pgs.

The Myth of A Psychiatric Crime Wave: Public Perception, Juror Research and Mental Illness

Corey Vitello, co-author.
Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina,  (2006)
250 pgs.  

Sex Crimes and Paraphilia

Editor, Prentice-Hall Publisher,
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. (2006).
550 pgs.    

Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime

Editor, Sage Publishers, Thousand Oaks, CA. (2003) 
550 pgs.

Controversial Issues in Criminology

Allyn and Bacon Publishers, Boston, MA
Co-editor: Dr. John Fuller. (1999).
256 pgs.

Book Chapters

“Cultural Development of Monsters, Demons, and Evil” in Violence and
Society: A reader, edited by Matthew Silberman, Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall Publishers, 2003. 

"An Interview With A Serial Murderer" in In Their Own Words: Criminals
 On Crime, edited by Paul Cromwell, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishers, 2002.

"Female Serial Murderesses: Constructing Differentiating Typologies,"
in Elliot Leyton’s (ed.) Serial Murder. Ashgate Publishing. Co-authored with
Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen Holmes. 1999.

"Trauma-Control Model in Serial Murder" in Criminology in the 1990s,
edited by Conklin, John, New York: Allyn & Bacon Publishers, 1996.

"Victimization Prevention: A Review of Missing and Murdered Children" in Helping Crime Victims: A National Survey, Albert R. Roberts editor, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publishers, 1990.

"The Etiology of Victimization in Serial Murder: an Historical and Demographic Analysis," in Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon, Steven Egger, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990.

Articles

“Serial Murder,” The Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention, Sage Publishers: Thousand Oaks, Spring, 2010.

“The Role of Psychology in Juvenile Fire-setting,” Bay Area Adjuster’s Almanac, Fall 1997.

"Female Serial Murderesses: Constructing Differentiating Typologies," Contemporary Journal of Criminal Justice, vol.7, No.4, December, 1991. PP. 245-256. Co-authored with Ronald M. Holmes.                          

"Dealing With Juvenile Delinquency: The Re-education of the Delinquent in the People's Republic of China," Co-authors, John D. Hewitt and Robert M. Regoli, pp. 67-81, in Official Responses to Problem Juveniles: Some International Reflections, edited by Jim Hackler, published by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain, 1991.

"The Female Serial Murderer, 1800-1986," Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 2, October, 1986, pp. 72-81.

Works In Progress

Serial Murderers and Their Victims, 6th Edition, Thomson/Wadsworth Publishing Company (ITP), Belmont, California. (2012). 450 pgs.

The Crib, my first novel.

Other Publications

Personality Characteristics and Behavior of Violent Criminals. A manual developed for
 California P.O.S.T. Homicide Investigation courses. Sacramento, CA  January, 2005. Co-
author: Gary Lowe, LCSW.

Instructors Manual and Test Bank (345 pg.) for Senna and Siegel's Introduction to Criminal Justice, 5th edition, West Publishing Company, Jan. 1990.