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"... people who score high on measures of antisocial personality, low in conscientiousness, high in neuroticism, and low in intelligence have been shown to be more likely to engage in criminal activities, including murder "

"Children who witness poor, unstable relationships between their parents and live in relatively resource-scarce environments are argued to be more likely to adopt short-term, opportunistic mating strategies as adults and riskier strategies for obtaining resources, including theft, violence, and murder"

This article examines murder and provides theories on the causes and rationale for murder. The article provides theory that site neglectful and traumatic upbringings as a potential cause. Also, uneducated and antisocial people are more likely to perpetrate violent acts against their fellow human. Perry exhibits all these traits and has the additional evil influence of Dick encouraging him.

This source discusses the characteristics of pyschopaths, as well as some of the base causes that drive people criminally insane. As one can see below, between Perry and Dick, every one of the listed traits of a serial killer pyschopath is listed below.

This site discusses the question of sanity vs insanity as well as biases and prejudices on the part of Capote. The source makes clear that even nonfiction novels are bound to be subliminally prejudiced; in this case, Capote tries to subconsciously explain away and bring sympathy for the killers.

Faulkner's use of metaphors to symbolize different stages of death and the stages of death.

In depth analysis of Addie and her maternal instincts.

This shows the isolation and alienation in the characters live. As isolation spawns alienation, this main theme reflects the families ability to communicate together and interact

This shows how Faulkner uses his Gothic elements to highlight his specific themes such as isolation. this is the main theme in As I Lay Dying, as it leads the the struggles in the family and their destruction

"Absurdist comedy is juxtaposed with existential tragedy, complicating the reader's assessment of the Bundren family and the significance of their actions"

This source is a literary criticism of the novel. It provides solid details to the black humor used in As I Lay Dying, and speaks more of the style of Faulkner's novel.

"perhaps because, for Addie, words are both the container and the contained; the empty vessel and the shape to fill that emptiness. They have the power to reveal and give form, as when she sees Anse flow out of the darkness and into the vessel of his name, but they also have the power to conceal"

This source provides an overview of the novel based solely on the language usage of each narrator. It examines specific language like Addie's, that is empty and useless because that's how she feels life is.

"Faulkner uses the experimental forms associated with modernism to depict the impact of the sociocultural era called modernity, and the processes of urbanization and industrialization known as modernization, on poor whites in the rural South. As I Lay Dying makes clear that Faulkner's rural modernism has not simply a geographic logic but also a sociopolitical significance. Rural modernism critiques the conflation of the urban and the modern, in part by revealing how the country is used as a foil against which urban modernity is defined"

This source examines the novel from the perspective of modernism in Faulkner's writing. It discusses how it is used and how it effects other themes. This brings a new perspective to the groups of themes.

This source is interesting as it comments that Faulkner uses the choppy breaking up of narrators to show the isolation of the family. as no member has consequtive chapters nor are the chapters intertwining view points

This refers to the selfish motives of the characters that isolate them on the journey to Jefferson. Because everyone is focused on their goals, no one seems to care about Addie and her burial

Again the individual isolation is seen at one of the two "climaxes" of the novel. Cash shows it here through the destruction of his tools, it shows the family chemistry cannot be fixed

This source reviews ICB, remarking that it does a stellar job at discussing the insanity of the killers, who do not feel any remorse, regard, or compassion in taking the lives of others. They are not 'technically' criminally insane; they know exactly what they are doing. Their insanity is a different type, a sort of detached lack of human capabilities, as they fail to regard life with any import or significance.

"Breivik's rigidity also fits into a typical pattern, Hoffmann says. "Such perpetrators have very assiduous tendencies and think in stereotypes. Everything is in black and white." "

"Last year, United States researchers at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee discovered an especially pronounced mechanism in the brain of psychopaths, namely that they have a need for reward at any cost."

This article examines Anders Beivik and his mass killing of 69 people at a Norwegian camp for teenagers. Anders Beivik systematically hunted down people for 90 minutes without remorse or compassion. This article examines the rationale behind this cold-bloodedness. Anders Beivik and the aspects of his personality that allow him to commit this act resemble Perry. Perry sees things as black and white, and he will do anything to make someone proud of him.

"In considering the race and ethnicity of neglected children, the highest percentage of children who experienced neglect only (and not other forms of child maltreatment) in 2003 were American Indian or Alaska Native (67.8%), followed by children of multiple races (55.9%)."

"There are other common types of neglect, such as medical neglect, safety neglect, abandonment and educational neglect."

This article examines the neglect of children. Neglect can be perceived in several ways and is seen in several acts such as the neglect of education or safety. Neglect is an important theme in all the novels of this segment. During In Cold Blood, the reader witnesses how Perry was neglected as a child by his father which resulted in severe inhibitions in his development. Parental neglect was a leading contributor to the end result of Perry murdering the Clutters.