Hello all,

My name is Dave from Colorado -- first time on Google Answers. I am
writing a research paper, and I'm trying to come up with an
objective/hypothesis to base it on. I'm looking to find valid sources
that are deemed academic/scholarly sources (no newspapers/magazines),
and I'm having some trouble because numerous excerpts from magazines
are getting in the way. I would like to base my paper on the female
serial killer, Aileen Wuornos. {There was a movie made about her
starring Charlize Theron (sp?)} Furthermore, I was looking to
illustrate the differences between male and female serial killers;
leaning more toward what drives a female killer to kill serially,
other female killers in history, and bios of each killer cited in my
paper (possibly 2 females and 2 males). Hope that you can help me out
-- not sure about pricing, either -- suggestions?

Dear Panas0nic, 

Here are several "academic" sources about Aileen Wuornos and other serial killers. 

Books
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DAVIS, Carol Anne. Women who kill: profiles of female serial killers.
London, G.B.: Allison & Busby, 2002.

EW Hickey, _Serial murderers and their victims_ Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth, 2002. [book]

KELLEHER, Michael D.; KELLEHER, C. L. Murder most rare: the female
serial killer. Westport, Conn., U.S.A.: Praeger, 1998

SL Shipley, BA Arrigo, _The female homicide offender: serial murder
and the case of Aileen Wuornos_ Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Prentice Hall , 2004. [book]

Articles
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BA Arrigo, A Griffin, 2004. "Serial murder and the case of Aileen
Wuornos: attachment theory, psychopathy, and predatory aggression"
_Behavioral Sciences & the Law_ Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 375 - 393

P Chesler, "… in the Criminal Justice System: A Woman's Right to
Self-Defence: The Case of Aileen Carol Wuornos." _St. John’s Law
Review, 1993 _

Fox and Levin, "Female Serial Killers," in Concetta Culliver (ed.),
Female Criminality: The State of the Art, Greenwood Press, 1993

HALE, Robert.; BOLIN, Anthony. "The Female Serial Killer;" in: HOLMES,
Ronald M.; HOLMES, Stephen T. [eds.]. Contemporary Perspectives on
Serial Murder. Thousand Oaks, CA., U.S.A.: Sage Publications, 1998,
pp. 33-58.

KIRBY, Patricia Lee. "The Feminization of Serial Killing: A Gender
Identity Study of Male and Female Serialists Using Covert Methods of
Murder." Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities &
Social Sciences, 59:7A (January 1999), 2727.

SCHURMAN-KAUFLIN, Deborah S. "Profiles of the Female Multiple
Murderer." Dissertation Abstracts International, 60:11-B (June 2000),
5759.


Thesis/Dissertations
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PHALIN, Alan John. Sociological aspects between male and female serial
killers: a comparative analysis. Thesis (M. A.)--National-Louis
University, College of Arts and Sciences, Evanston, IL., U.S.A., 2001

Further possible sources on Google Scholar: 

[Aileen Wuornos]
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Aileen+Wuornos&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N 

[female serial killers]
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=female+serial+killers&btnG=Search

Names of Serial Killers
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Beverley Allitt
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Allitt> 

Mary Ann Cotton
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton> 

Wikipedia - a full list
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Serial_killers> 

I hope this answers your question. PLease contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.