Name: The Evil that Men Do
ISBN: 9780312198770

Stephen G. Michaud

Roy Hazelwood

Offers insights concerning the way the minds of sexual criminals work.

FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey Into the Minds of Sexual Predators

The Evil that Men Do

It is certainly a good book if you like crimes and hearing about the specific cases and profiling behind those cases. I personally really like it, though I found myself having read it over the course of a year and not just sitting down and being able to read it in a few days, as it is under 300 pages in length, it should have been easy. I found myself picking this up for a few chapters, getting either overloaded or bored, and remembering it a few months later. It might just be me, but I have to be in the right sort of mindset for this kind of subject, usually after reading something particularly happy or positive. I also had a few other books from the same category to wade through, and a healthy balance is needed when dealing with typologies of rapists or one gets over-paranoid. 

I think my issues with this book were mainly in the biography phase, in that it was quite boring. Maybe because I am not into biographies or because I was looking for the criminal profiling and intstead was wading through a rather pompous narrative about how Roy Hazelwood turned from a cocky boy into a man who got very good at profiling and identifying profiling patterns. Don't misunderstand me, though, because he is very good and once you get to the details of cases and the way that he has changed the industry for the better, it gets a lot more interesting and, in my opinion, better written than the biographical portion. But the biographical portion takes up a good amount of the book and, in my opinion, it would have benefited from less biography and more research details, or anecdotes or something related to the profiling part.

The Evil that Men Do FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey Into the Minds of Sexual Predators

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