Major Publications (excluding reviews)

1965 "Composite descent groups in Canada". Man 65: 107-110. Reprinted in C.C. Harris (ed), Readings in Kinship in Urban Society, 1970, London: Pergamon

1966 "Conscious models and dispute regulation in an Ulster village". Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 1: 534-542

1970 "Death and authority in the fishing industry". Resurgence 3: 12-13

1970 "Spheres of inheritance in Aughnaboy". American Anthropologist 72:1378-1388

1974 (ed) The Compact: Selected Dimensions of Friendship. St John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research Press

1974 "Irish friends and 'friends': the nexus of friendship, kinship and class in Aughnaboy". In Elliott Leyton (ed), The Compact, 1974

1974 "Opposition and integration in Ulster". Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 9: 185-198

1975 The One Blood: Kinship and Class in an Irish Village. St John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research Press

1975 Dying Hard: The Ravages of Industrial Carnage. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

1976 "I'm the man and the woman since he got sick". In W.E. Mann and Les Wheatcroft (eds), Canada: A Sociological Profile. (Reprinted from Dying Hard 1975) Toronto: Copp Clark

1977 "Dying by inches with dust in your lungs". New Society 40: 55-57. Reprinted in Medicine and Health: A New Society Social Studies Reader, 1981, London: Heinemann

1977 "Public consciousness and public policy". In J. Freedman (ed), Applied Anthropology in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Ethnology Society

1978 "The life history in Newfoundland anthropological studies". In N.V. Rosenberg (ed), Folklore and Oral History. St John's, Nfld.: Memorial University Press

1978 (and Don Handelman) Bureaucracy and World View: Studies in the Logic of Official Interpretation. St John's, Nfld: Institute of Social and Economic Research Press

1979 The Myth of Delinquency: An Anatomy of Juvenile Nihilism. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

1980 "Bureaucracy and world view". In Alexander Himelfarb and James Richardson (eds), People, Power and Process: A Reader. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson

1981 "Industrial carnage and social responsibility". In David Coburn et al (eds), Health and Canadian Society: Sociological Perspectives. Pickering, Ont.: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

1983 "A social profile of sexual mass murderers". In Thomas Fleming and L.A. Visano (eds), Deviant Designations: Crime, Law and Deviance in Canada. Toronto: Butterworths. Reprinted in RCMP Gazette, 1984. 46: 17-2l. Reprinted in Lorne Tepperman and James Curtis (eds), Readings in Sociology: An Introduction. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1988

1984 "The myth of delinquency". New Society 67: 440-442. Reprinted in The Welfare State and its Clients: A New Society Social Studies Reader, 1984. London: Heinemann. Reprinted in Youth and Delinquency: A New Society Social Studies Reader, 1985. London: Gower House

1984 "Universities' position on the employment of Canadian women". Society/Societe 8: 7-8

1984 "On academical occupational disease". Society/Societe 8: 10

1985 "Homicide". In The Canadian Encyclopedia Vol 2: 828. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers

1986 "Drunk and disorderly: changing crime in Newfoundland". In J. Rex Clark (ed), Contrary Winds: Essays on Newfoundland Society in Crisis. St John's, Nfld.: Breakwater Books

1986 Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Published simultaneously in the United States as Compulsive Killers: The Story of Modern Multiple Murder. New York: New York University Press

1987 Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer. Reprint of the New York University Press edition. Toronto: Bantam Seal Books

1988 Hunting Humans: Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers. First revised edition. New York: Pocket Books

1989 Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer. Second revised edition. London: Penguin Books

1990 "American Culture Incites Serial Killers." In David Bender and Bruno Leone (eds), Violence in America: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven Press

1990 Sole Survivor: Children Who Murder Their Families. Toronto: Bantam Seal Books

1991 Sole Survivor: Children Who Murder Their Families. London: Penguin Books

1992 Sole Survivor: Children Who Murder Their Families. Revised edition. New York: Pocket Books

1992 (with William O'Grady and James Overton) Violence and Public Anxiety: A Canadian Case. St John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research Press

1992 "Memories of Mourne". Anthropology Ireland Vol. 2, No. 1: 10-15

1993 British BCA Book Club hardcover editions of both Hunting Humans and Sole Survivor

1995 Revised Canadian edition, with a new introduction, Hunting Humans: The Rise of Modern Multiple Murderer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

1995 Japanese translation of Hunting Humans. Osaka: Jimbun Shoin Publishers

1995 Men of Blood: Murder in Modern England, London: Constable

1996 Men of Blood: Murder in Everyday Life (Canadian Edition, with an extended foreword on Canadian homicide). Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

1996 Dying Hard (new edition). Toronto: Oxford University Press

1996 The Myth of Delinquency (new edition). Toronto: Oxford University Press

1996 "Second thoughts on theoretical approaches to multiple murder". In Thomas O'Reilly-Fleming (ed), Serial and Mass Murder: Theory, Research and Policy. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press

1996 "The rarity of the 'typical' English murderer". In The Psychologist: Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Vol 9, No 6: 254

1996 "Problems in the comparative study of homicide". In Deskundigen en Hun Diagnose, Het Psychiatrisch Juridisch Gezelschap, Nieuwe reeks 7. Gouda Quint, Amsterdam

1997 Japanese translation of Sole Survivor. Tokyo: Soshisha Books

1997 Polish translation of Hunting Humans. Warsaw: Al Fine

1997 Polish translation of Sole Survivor. Warsaw: Al Fine

1998 "Elias and the Study of Homicide", Figurations 9 (May): 6

1998 "Hate White People - Beast of the Earth: Mark James Robert Essex", in Michael L. Kurtz (ed), Lousiana Since the Longs: 1960 to Century's End, The Lousiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Lousiana History, Vol IX. Lafayette, LA: Centre for Lousiana Studies

1998 Touched By Fire: 'Doctors Without Borders' in a Third World Crisis. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

1999 "The Doctor Is Out". In Utne Reader, No. 94, pp 57-59

1999 "Serial and Mass Murderers," in Lester Kurtz (ed), Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace & Conflict (3 vols). New York: Academic Press

2000 (ed) Serial Murder: Modern Scientific Perspectives. Aldershot, U.K.: Dartmouth/Ashgate Press

2001 Hunting Humans: Inside the Minds of the Real Life Hannibal Lecters, (With a new preface on the mass media's portrayal of multiple murderers). London: John Blake Publishing

2001 Sole Survivor: Children Who Murder Their Families (With a new preface updating familicide). London: John Blake

2002 Men of Blood: Murder in Everyday Life (with a new preface for the U.S. audience,"Perspectives on America". Toronto: McClelland and Stewart

2003 "Violent Crime in Canada", In Miller, Van Esterik and Van Esterik (eds.), Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada

2003 "Aggression: Evolutionary and Anthropological Theories", in Eric Hickey (ed), Encyclopedia of Homicide and Violent Crime. Los Angeles: Sage

2003 Korean translation of Touched By Fire: ODoctors without Bordersš in a Third World Crisis. Seoul, Korea: Woomul-House Publishing Co.

2003 "Violent Crime in Canada", In Miller, Van Esterik and Van Esterik (eds.), Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada

2003 Completely revised, updated and expanded edition of Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer. New York: Carol & Graf

2003 The Man Who Studies Murder, a National Film Board film on my lifešs work, to be released in a two-part mini-series on CBC Televisionšs THE NATURE OF THINGS.

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