True crime is a multi-billion-dollar industry for magazines, publishers, podcasters, and networks. Yet, as a behavioral scientist and Chair of the Innocent Project London, I ask why so many strangers sympathize with and romanticize self-confessed killers over the innocent.
By humanizing perpetrators through media narratives, such as portraying them through a traumatic lens, we begin to overlook crime severity and warm to villains, neglecting their victims.
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