The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators Hardcover – January 1, 1999

Stephen Michaud give capacious coverage of "The Evil That Men Do" by depicting authentic sexual crimes ranging from serial killings to autoerotic death in details as seen through the disciplined ingenuous mind of co-author Roy Hazelwood, veteran FBI agent who specialized in the behavioral study of sexual deviants. Hazelwood, former member of the elite Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico, VA, is an acknowledged authority on the fantasies and modus operandi of sexual criminals. The chapters on autoerotic death and pseudovictimization are especially informative.This book is a useful complement to any criminal behavioral profiling library. Unfortunately, proof reading by the publishers should have been taken much more seriously, and this failure detracts from its use as a scholarly reference source. Solecism is overly conspicuous and disturbing throughout the text and magnifies many passages suffering from sundry abuses of language. The authors' occasional attempts to infuse some humorous remarks, most of which fell short of their mark, would be better omitted.Hopefully, reprinting of this book will mandate a close scrutiny of grammer. Substitution of such words as "the" and "to", etc. indicates spell checkers are not a substitute for tedious textual proofing: - On rereading this book I downgraded it from a 4 to a 3 based on grammatical error, not lack of useful material.

So many interesting points about the way profiling works. I had no idea how consistent these criminals are and that there are tens of thousands of cases that served as data. But a word of warning: do not read this if you are a woman, home alone, with a vivid imagination. I could barely sleep and was sure a serial rapist was going to come through the door at any moment!! Though the book makes clear how rare the cases are, reading about them in detail made the idea of someone coming into my home less abstract. At the end they play a case out and you can try to profile the criminal and it's cool. You feel like Sherlock Holmes!

Clear and through telling of truly horrendous acts of evil. Written in a format that showed respect and professionalism.Could have become a dry procedural recounting instead this book was written in a relatable way that avoided over sensationallising any of the cases and managed to provide information in a clear and concise be way.

I've read other books about Roy Hazelwood and this is one of the best. Hazelwood and his work are endlessly fascinating. This book is not for the faint of heart--there are many graphic descriptions of violence.

I thought it was a great book. Im not a professional book reviewer, so I'm not going to go all-in with a fancy review. I'm a voracious reader of true-crime anything. Some are more technical than others. I like technical, because it gives me the probably-false impression that I'm learning something fantastic. This one wasn't that technical or "researchy", but it was still entertaining, and I couldn't put it down for long. I liked it and I'm glad I read it.

I'm a huge fan of true crime and forensic science. However, I found this book seriously disappointing.....particularly since I bought it in hardbound!!! I can't count the number of times in this book that I sighed in disappointment,since suddenly, the book would shift to a chapter that had absolutely no connection with the subtitle of this book, "FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators." In fact, there wasn't much about sexual predators until the final chapters. And........Stephen Michaud, who wrote this book, tends to cover topics in such brevity that it leaves the reader wondering, "And? And?" I think the problem here is Stephen Michaud. He stinks as a writer. I'm sure Roy Hazelwood's career has been fascinating, and it's unfortunate that he chose Michaud as his author of choice. There were so many grammatical errors in the first third of this book that I simply couldn't imagine why Michaud was thanking his editor. For me, particularly in a hardbound, such carelessness just drives me nuts. All-in-all, I found this book to be a major disappointment and the single most dull book I've read in true crime/forensic science.

This book satisfied my need to attempt to understand why these killers become the way they are and how they work. Creepy and fascinating!

I have read other books on profiling and enjoyed them. This book was slightly different, I liked the detail of the cases and also a practice profiling near the end.

Really disappointed with this as I had high hopes after reading mindhunter and considering Hazelwood was the main guy from that BSU team. He’s like a god to profilers.The problem with this was instead of telling us or showing us his world of how he captured these guys or why they thought the way they did, instead we get a script of what the sexual offenders did with minimal information as to why in a psychological sense. I’m not someone that gets off reading sexual offences and it’s certainly difficult to read. The writing style is just poor.

Roy Hazelwood is one of the little known original founders of the FBI’s Behavioural Analyst Unit. Originally specialising in autoerotic asphyxaphelia he branches out in this book to sexual sadism. A must read for anyone interested in the criminal mind and sexual deviancy.

I’m an avid reader of true crime and found this packed full of interesting and fascinating crimes. I enjoyed how they were analysed, how the profiles were done. in some cases before the perp was caught and in some, after and it’s made me want to find more just like it. Well and insightfully written

I couldn't put this down. Absolutely fascinating and so very informative. An excellent book that you won't regret buying or reading.

This is a really good book and I would have given it 5 stars if not for the fact that whole pages were missing in parts of it.