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Dark Dreams: A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Roy Hazelwood
3.81 AVERAGE
32 reviews for:
Dark Dreams: A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Roy Hazelwood
3.81 AVERAGE
Very interesting (and unsettling), but ultimately extremely informative!
dark
fast-paced
This book is better than [b:The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Serial Killers|107453|The Evil That Men Do FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Serial Killers|Stephen G. Michaud|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387707112s/107453.jpg|103562] (which was very much like someone took a power point presentation and turned it into a book). It gives a great insight into the mind of sexual criminals (often really scary and dark) but at times I felt the views of the authors was way too puritanical. They lists any sexual act outside of the Biblical norm as perverse. Homosexual desires. Any form of games. Fantasies... It is suggested that at least some of these are a gate way act into something more serious. What the authors don't talk about is how many sex games, how many fantasies and so on just stay that way. In other words, are the criminals just drawn to this behaviour or is this behaviour creating the criminal mind? To be fair the book never says it is the latter but it kind of flirts with that idea and never comes clearly out against it.
Took me a long time to complete this as I sometimes had to pause and take stuff in. This is a very informative book for those who are interested in criminal psychology and profiling.
A very accessible resource for those who want to know more about the criminal mind and the techniques being used by the authorities. 👍🏻👍🏻
dark
informative
medium-paced
First of all if you are getting into this book for criminal mind 101, i would not suggest it. It is not a book for everyone. There is no light thievery in this book. It is about sexual crimes and, particularly, murders that involve at least one sexual element. It is explicit and goes into graphic detail in a lot of cases.
I read The Evil That Men Do years ago so I knew to a certain extent what I got. I want you to keep in mind that this book was published in 2001 and some cases are from 60 years ago so certain terms or ideas he wrote are no longer used or agreed upon but his insight shaped the behavior science unit and influenced criminal investigations all over the world so what he said is important.
I read The Evil That Men Do years ago so I knew to a certain extent what I got. I want you to keep in mind that this book was published in 2001 and some cases are from 60 years ago so certain terms or ideas he wrote are no longer used or agreed upon but his insight shaped the behavior science unit and influenced criminal investigations all over the world so what he said is important.
This is my first real experience with true crime, read on a recommendation, and I really enjoyed this.
The writing was informative and educational while still being very accessible to someone like myself whose knowledge of the topic comes pretty exclusively from fictional television programs and films. I feel like I learned a lot about the people who commit the most heinous of rapes and murders. I feel like it gave me a lot new information on the professionals who study these crimes, how they study them, and just how these criminals think. I enjoyed a more in depth analysis of profiling, which is something I knew about before, as well as more information on equivocal death analysis and linkage analysis which were types of analyses that I hadn't been familiar with.
I also really enjoyed the case studies of crimes that I was very familiar with, like the Jack the Ripper killings, and the crimes I was not as familiar with. I also liked how Hazelwood and Michaud connected things that these lesser known killers and rapists did to more well known criminals, like Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy, which made it feel a bit more accessible.
I have been interested in crimes of these nature, but I've typically only read articles on the topic, and not usually anything meant to inform the reader on the actual studies of these crimes and criminals. I've mostly read articles about what happened, who was involved, and so on. It was a nice change of pace to read a full length work that gave much more in depth information.
While overall this was a disturbing read, it was quite good and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the topic. I am very interested in reading more true crime in the future, I feel like this was a good introduction to the genre.
The writing was informative and educational while still being very accessible to someone like myself whose knowledge of the topic comes pretty exclusively from fictional television programs and films. I feel like I learned a lot about the people who commit the most heinous of rapes and murders. I feel like it gave me a lot new information on the professionals who study these crimes, how they study them, and just how these criminals think. I enjoyed a more in depth analysis of profiling, which is something I knew about before, as well as more information on equivocal death analysis and linkage analysis which were types of analyses that I hadn't been familiar with.
I also really enjoyed the case studies of crimes that I was very familiar with, like the Jack the Ripper killings, and the crimes I was not as familiar with. I also liked how Hazelwood and Michaud connected things that these lesser known killers and rapists did to more well known criminals, like Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy, which made it feel a bit more accessible.
I have been interested in crimes of these nature, but I've typically only read articles on the topic, and not usually anything meant to inform the reader on the actual studies of these crimes and criminals. I've mostly read articles about what happened, who was involved, and so on. It was a nice change of pace to read a full length work that gave much more in depth information.
While overall this was a disturbing read, it was quite good and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the topic. I am very interested in reading more true crime in the future, I feel like this was a good introduction to the genre.
It's a really great book it was the first time I read something like this and I've got to say I do not regret it! It gives a lot of information just like documentary about profiling but the author also talks about some actual cases he worked which makes it very interesting and precisely documented.
This book was a really disturbing easy read. I tore through all the bloody rape and murder stories, and gobbled up the psychology sections with explanations of the pathology involved in sexual crimes, and the requirements for successful BSU agents, and their methodology for helping capture such criminals. The book seems thorough in covering the issues surrounding it, and the author is clearly knowledgeable as well as a good teacher. I am a bit jumpier since I read this book, more aware of situations and people around me. that might not be a bad thing.