I am writing a book about teenagers and young adults (primarily males) who commit terrible crimes: school shooters, serial killers, and mass murderers are some examples. I am writing the book from the perspective of the psychological and sociological backgrounds of the perpetrators; this will not be a book detailing the crime itself; the thrust of the book is to understand why these men commit these crimes so that one can intervene and prevent others from doing so. What publishers specialize in such books?

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I don't know but you could look for books on that subject at a library or amazon.com and find out who publishes them.

See if you can find a literary agent first, and then the agent will find a publisher for you. aaronline.org has a list of ethical agents, as does agentquery.com. If you can't get an agent then there are some small publishers that take unsolicited manuscripts that publish non-fiction. I used to have a list of small publishers, but my computer went up in smoke, so I don't have access to my bookmarks. You can also find a list of publishers at http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums under the Writer beware and background check section.

You could look it up in Writer's Market. They have headings as well as publisher's name. I believe they also have an online version.