Document Library

I created this page in the hopes of making it easier to sift through the collection of important and/or official documents, transcripts, letters, and images amassed by Mascara and Murder.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

Fairy Tales, News Stories & the Monstrous Karla Homolka

"Fairy tales and news stories are not often linked; however, in many news stories, Canadian media depicted Karla Homolka as both passive princess and evil witch. This paper argues journalists used aspects of popularized fairy tales to shape and give meaning to Homolka's life, personality and crimes, and these constructs created a discourse that limited, liberated and ultimately problematised the public's conception of Homolka."

Representing the Reprehensible: Fairy Tales, News Stories & the Monstrous Karla Homolka
By Romaine Smith Fullerton, Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal Vol. 31, No. 1 (2006)

"Horrific Video Tapes as Evidence"

Horrific Video Tapes as Evidence: Balancing Open Court
and Victims' Privacy
Bruce A. MacFarlane, Q.C.
Deputy Minister of Justice
Deputy Attorney General for the Province of Manitoba
September 25th, 1998

Gender and Crime

Gender and Crime (PDF)
Janet T. Davidson, 2009
21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook
Sage Publications

Law, Psychiatry and the Remaking of Karla Homolka

For those who enjoy scholarly reading, here's an interesting article I found discussing the case of Karla Homolka from a psychological and legal perspective.

"She remains caught in the maelstrom of public demonisation. Sympathy for this devil is constrained by her moral vacuity, by her desire for the Hollywood order of things - cute boyfriend, great looks, fancy wedding, perfect marriage, neat house - inverted, a wedding and three funerals, four if we count the only death she seems to mourn, that of her relationship with Bernardo. [...] The gap between law and the psy disciplines in the face of the problem of evil in women is painfully apparent in Galligan's struggle to comprehend and contain the findings of law's junior discourse. The fracture between criminal justice and social notions of justice is wider than ever."

Law, psychiatry and the remaking of Karla Homolka
Anne McGillivray, International Journal of the Legal Profession, 5:2-3, 255-288

Resolving Gender Bias in Criminal Defences

Resolving Gender Bias in Criminal Defences
Stanley Yeo, Monash University Law Review, 104-116 (1993)

The Disturbed Mind: Compliant Victims of the Sexual Sadist

The presentation of Karla Homolka as a victim of her husband, Paul Bernardo, relied heavily on the work of Dr. Roy Hazelwood; particularly his paper The Disturbed Mind: Compliant Victims of the Sexual Sadist.

"This is a descriptive summary of the experiences of a sample of women who have been consensually involved with criminal sexual sadists. The paper details the physical, sexual, and psychological abuse to which the women were subject as well as the process by which they were transformed from independent, competent woman to the compliant appendages of their criminally active partners. Similarities in the sexual sadist's criminal and consensual sexual activities as they reflect a specific paraphilic preference are discussed."

The Disturbed Mind: Compliant Victims of the Sexual Sadist (PDF)

Three Contributions to Theory of Sex

This has been called one of Freud's "most momentous and original contributions to human knowledge."  It stands alongside Interpretation of Dreams as his best-known work.

Three Contributions to Theory of Sex
(Second Edition, Second Reprinting)

Sigmund Freud, LL.D.

Authorized translation by A.A. Brill, PH.B., M.D.

With introduction by James J. Putman, M.D.

Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series No. 7

Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co.

New York, 1920 

From a Woman In Danger to a Dangerous Woman

Admittedly, this article is fraught with inconsistencies and half-truths which will leap out immediately to those who are familiar with the details of this case. However, I think it's still an interesting piece which perhaps inadvertently contributes to the Homolka mythology.

Karla Homola: From a Woman in Danger to a Dangerous Woman - Chronicling the Shifts
Jennifer M. Kilty MA & Sylvie Frigon PhD, Women & Criminal Justice, 17:4, 37-61

Defence of Coercive Persuasion

The Compliant Victim of the Sexual Sadist and the Proposed Canadian Defence of Coercive Persuasion
Assistant Prof. Frances E. Chapman
The International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law - 22nd International Conference
Codifying the Criminal Law: Modern Initiatives, Dublin, Ireland