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• The Seven Steps to Personal Safety: How to Survive a Violent Confrontation (electronic edition, 2000), by Richard B. Isaacs and Tim Powers (PDF with commentary at lubrinco.com)

• Comprehending Columbine (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c2007), by Ralph W. Larkin (HTML and PDF with commentary at Temple University Press)

• Report of the State's Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury on the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and 36 Yogananda Street, Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 (with appendix; Danbury, CT: Office of the State's Attorney, Judicial District of Danbury, 2013), by Stephen J. Sedensky
  • PDF and PDF Portfolio files with commentary at ct.gov
  • report and appendix bundles, and supplementary multimedia: various formats at ct.gov
• Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (Hartford, CT: State of Connecticut, 2014), by Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (PDF at ct.gov)

• Rampage Shootings and Gun Control: Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe (London and New York: Routledge, c2017), by Steffen Hurka (HTML and PDF with commentary at taylorandfrancis.com)

• Report of the State's Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury on the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and 36 Yogananda Street, Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 (with appendix; Danbury, CT: Office of the State's Attorney, Judicial District of Danbury, 2013), by Stephen J. Sedensky
  • PDF and PDF Portfolio files with commentary at ct.gov
  • report and appendix bundles, and supplementary multimedia: various formats at ct.gov

• Report of the National School Shield Task Force (with appendixes; Washington: National Rifle Association, 2013), by National School Shield Task Force (PDF at nraschoolshield.com)

• Case of the Slave Isaac Brown: An Outrage Exposed (ca. 1847) (page images and text at Library of Congress)

• Convict 99: A True Story of Penal Servitude (London: Grant Richards, 1898), by Marie Connor Leighton and Robert Leighton, illust. by Stanley L. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple formats at niu.edu)
• Caleb Williams, or Things As They Are, by William Godwin, contrib. by Ernest A. Baker (Gutenberg text)
• Things As They Are: or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by William Godwin (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• No More Excuses: A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, 2015), by Laura Pitter and Leslie Haskell (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Rights in Retreat: Abuses in Crimea (in English, Russian, and Ukrainian; New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Yulia Gorbunova (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Encourage, Support, Act! Bystander Approaches to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Sydney: Australian Human Rights Commission, c2012), by Paula McDonald and Michael Flood (PDF with commentary at QUT ePrints)

• Unsafe and Harassed in Public Spaces: A National Street Harassment Report (Reston, VA: Stop Street Harassment, 2014), by Holly Kearl (PDF with commentary at stopstreetharassment.org)

• The Coming Wave of Violence in California (1996), by Allan F. Abrahamse (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials (London: John Murray, 1846), by Anselm Feuerbach, trans. by Lucie Duff Gordon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2005), by Michael Bryant (PDF at upcolorado.com)

• Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Carolyn Conley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Crimes of the Community: Honour-Based Violence in the UK (c2008), by James Brandon and Salam Hafez (PDF at Civitas)

• The Terror: A Mystery (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1917), by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg text)

• The Clue of the Silver Key (c1930), by Edgar Wallace (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Mystery of the Downs (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1918), by John R. Watson and Arthur J. Rees (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Silent House, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Law and the Lady, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• The Unwilling Adventurer (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1913), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Confession and Execution of Letitia Wigington of Ratclif (1681), contrib. by Leticia Wigington (HTML at Emory)

• Trial of John Alexander Dickman (Edinburgh and London: W. Hodge and Co., 1914), ed. by S. O. Rowan-Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trial of John Alexander Dickman (Toronto: Canada Law Book Co., 1914), ed. by S. O. Rowan-Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1905), by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Trial of Mary Blandy (1914), ed. by William Roughead (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Trial of Captain Porteous (Toronto: Canada Law Book Co., 1909), ed. by William Roughead
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Trial of Mrs. M'Lachlan (Glasgow and Edinburgh: W. Hodge and Co., 1911), ed. by William Roughead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Burke and Hare (Edinburgh and London: W. Hodge and Co., 1921), ed. by William Roughead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of Burke and Hare, and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment from the Criminal Annals of Scotland (Glasgow: T. D. Morison; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1884), by George Mac Gregor
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828, for the Murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty (Edinburgh: R. Buchanan; et al., 1829), ed. by John Macnee (page images at HathiTrust)
• West Port Murders: or, An Authentic Account of the Atrocious Murders Committed By Burke and His Associates, Containing a Full Account of All The Extraordinary Circumstances Connected With Them (Edinburgh: T. Ireland, 1829)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia (electronic edition, 1995), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1957), by David Brion Davis (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Jordan Schildcrout (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in the Case of Bastard Children (London: J. Callow, 1818), by William Hunter (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 100 Years of Lynchings (New York: Lancer Books, c1962), by Ralph Ginzburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Feeling is Tense": 1937 Lynchings 8, Prevented Lynchings, 56 (Bulletin #8; 1938), by Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Black Man's Burden, or, The Horrors of Southern Lynchings: The Most Thrilling Exposé of Southern Lawlessness Ever Presented to the American People (Olean, NY: Olean Evening Spirit, 1902), by Irenas J. Palmer, contrib. by Julius Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South, In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1918), by Winfield H. Collins
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Why Communism Kills: The Legacy of Karl Marx (with a biography of the author; c2000), by Fred Schwarz (HTML at schwarzreport.org)
• Famous Unsolved Murder Mysteries (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1937), by Marcet Haldeman-Julius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Murder at Smutty Nose, and Other Murders (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1926), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder for Profit (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by William Bolitho (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder and its Motives (London: W. Heinemann, 1924), by F. Tennyson Jesse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why Communism Kills: The Legacy of Karl Marx (Long Beach, CA: Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, ca. 1981), by Fred Schwarz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rebel Earl, and Other Studies (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, 1926), by William Roughead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations: How to Document and Respond to Potential Violations of the Right to Life Within the International System for the Protection of Human Rights, by Kate Thompson and Camille Giffard (PDF and other formats with commentary in the UK)

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