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Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.3
EAN: 9780312253424
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0312253427
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: July 19, 2001
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Studio: St. Martin's Press
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Editorial Review:
The Evil That Men Do introduced readers to the lifework and the techniques of FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.Now, in Dark Dreams, Hazelwood-- writing with bestselling author Stephen G. Michaud-- will take then deep into the minds of his prey, the world's most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveal the extent to which these individuals permeate our society.Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world's leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders-- the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motive and thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques-- investigative approaches that he helped pioneer at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit-- that allow law enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who commit these crimes.Hazelwood has helped track down some of the most violent and well-known criminals in modern history; in Dark Dreams he takes readers into his world-- a sinister world inhabited by scores of dangerous offenders for every Roy Hazelwood who would put them behind bars:* A young woman disappears from the convenience store where she works. Her skeletonized remains are found in a field, near a torture device. Who committed this heinous crime? And why?* A teenager's body is found hanging in a storm sewer. His clothes are neatly folded by the entrance and a stopwatch is found in his mouth. Is he the victim of a bizarre, ritualistic murder...or an elaborate masturbatory fantasy gone awry?* A married couple, driving with their toddler in the backseat, pick up a female hitchhiker. They kidnap her and for seven years keep her as a sexual slave. The wife agreed to this inhuman arrangement in exchange for having a second child. Who was to blame?As gruesome as the crimes are and as unsettling as the odds seem, Hazelwood proves that the right amount of determination and logic can bring even the most cunning and devious criminals to justice.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Disturbing and insightful
This book is not for those with a weak constitution. The cases reviewed and discussed are disturbing, but the insight is great. This book allowed me to understand a bit more about the process used to understand the mind of the criminal.
I highly recommend this work to anyone in law enforcement, private investigations, or for those who want to understand the art of investigations... Just make sure you have not eaten lunch just before you start reading.
Rating: - Graphic-Not a book for the easily horrified
This book was very informative. I was fascinated by all the things that Hazelwood has encountered in his career. This book is very graphic.
Rating:  - A True-Crime Book
For some reason I thought this was a book about the science behind criminal profiling. I was mostly wrong. It's a book about some mildly interesting crimes, much like you would see on A&E's crime shows.
There is a page or two about the science of criminal profiling, but that's all.
I'm not into true-crime stories, so it wasn't that interesting to me.
Again, if you're looking for the methods of profiling, this is not the book.
Rating:  - Dark Dreams english review
Dark Dreams is a book that is absolutely for mature readers its content is not child friendly. Roy Hazelwood spent sixteen years as a member of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. During this time he worked on many shocking cases but that's not all, he also did research on deviant behaviors this book shows some of what he discovered. Throughout the book Hazelwood gives many examples of horrifying real life crimes that he examined. The twenty-one year old woman with no history of arrest or psychiatric ... Read More
Rating: - Depth & Perception
An excellent book that offers depth and perception into the criminal mind, Dark Dreams is a harsh, disturbing but ultimately mesmerizing book. The author's unquestioned authority in this area lends breadth to his analyses, certainly, but it his is writing style that gives the work a horrifying immediacy.
Although excellent for libraries, it should be noted that this is not a book for young readers. The material is candid and at times grotesque. Recommended reference for mature students.
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