Dark dreams vs Understanding Violence: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Violent crimes, Criminal psychology, Criminology, Sociology, United States, True Crime
Dark dreams
Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders--the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motives and perverse thinking that go into…
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Understanding Violence
“No longer rare in the experience of most Americans, violence hits us where we live-literally.”
"In this book, Elizabeth Kandel Englander sorts, structures, and evaluates violence hypotheses. She draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields - clinical and social psychology, sociology, criminology,…
The verdict
- Readers rate Dark dreams highest: Dark dreams 3.9 · Understanding Violence 3.7.
- Understanding Violence has the widest readership — 35 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Dark dreams | Understanding Violence | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (22) | 3.6 (35) |
| Hardcover | 4.7 (3) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (8) | — |
Reception
| Dark dreams | Understanding Violence | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 22 | 35 |
| Editions | 5 | 8 |
| Want to read | 29 | — |
| Reading it now | 2 | — |
| Written reviews | 2 | — |
| Pages | 281 | 210 |