Leopold and Loeb. See Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen, Crimes of the Century (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998). This volume provides a detailed examination of what the authors consider the five most celebrated crimes of the 20th century, including the Leopold and Loeb murder of Bobby Franks.
Prostitution. For those interested in reading more about the lifestyles of sex workers, a number of excellent resources have been published in the past few years, including: Frederique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander, eds., Sex Work (San Francisco: Clies Press, 1998). Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition (New York: Routledge, 1998). Lisa Maher, Sexed Work: Gender, Race and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). James E. Elia, Vern L. Bullough, Veronica Elias, and Gwen Brewer, eds., Prostitution: On Whores, Hustlers, and Johns (New York: Prometheus Books, 1998). Hilary L. Surratt, James A. Inciardi, Steven P. Kurtz, and Marion C. Kiley (2004), "Sex Work and Drug Use in a Subculture of Violence," Crime & Delinquency 50(1): 43-59. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, ed., Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (San Francisco: Harrington Park Press, 1999).
Theories of Crime. Excellent overviews of the theories of crime causation can be found in J. Robert Lilly's Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000) and in Ronald Aker's Criminology Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application (Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, 2000).
American Law. One of the best books on the evolution of law in the United States is Lawrence M. Friedman's A History of American Law (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973).
Mothers Who Kill Their Children. There are several intriguing resources on this disturbing phenomenon. Margaret G. Spinelli, Infanticide: Psychosocial and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill (Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association, 2002); Cheryl L. Meyer, et al., Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom" (New York: New York University Press, 2001); Suzanne O'Malley, Are You There Alone? The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004); Hanna Putkonen, "Infanticide: Psychological and Legal Perspectives on Mothers Who Kill," Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 14, 4 (2004): 314-315.
Criminal Defenses. The following resources investigate some of the less traditional criminal defenses used today. Saundra Davis Westervelt, Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999); Alison Dundes Renteln, The Cultural Defense (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2004); Kenneth J. Weiss, "'Wet' and Wild: PCP and Criminal Responsibility," Journal of Psychiatry and Law 32 (Fall 2004): 361-384; Gwen Adshead, "Self-Made Madness: Rethinking Illness and Criminal Responsibility," British Journal of Psychiatry 186 (Jan. 2005): 82-83.
