The following publications discuss the motives, goals, and characteristics of gender-selective and criminal extremism:

Ehrenfeld, Rachel. Narco-Terrorism. New York: Basic Books, 1990.

Farr, Kathryn. Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children. New York: Worth, 2004.

Grabosky, Peter, and Michael Stohl. Crime and Terrorism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2010.

Grayson, George W. Narco-violence and a Failed State?. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010.

Holmes, Jennifer S. Guns, Drugs, and Development. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Jones, Adam, ed. Gendercide and Genocide. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.

Kenney, Michael. From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.

Prunier, Girard. Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.

Reichel, Philip, ed. Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.

Tarazona-Sevillano, Gabriela. Sendero Luminoso and the Threat of Narcoterrorism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1990.

Voeten, Teun. How de Body? One Man’s Terrifying Journey Through an African War. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2002.