Crafting True Crime: Trial by Ambush
For our readers, a Christmas present from the incomparable John Valeri, host of Central Booking podcast, a writer, readers and[…]
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Category: True Crime
Ripped From the Headlines –
TikTok’s Redacted Statements – that weren’t. In October (2024) I wrote about the exploding pagers and walkie talkies Israel got[…]
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Ripped from the headlines
(Image Credit: Reuters) In September, 2024, Lebanon was rocked when the batteries inside pagers and walkie talkies purchased by the[…]
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LISTENING TO PODCASTS FOR RESEARCH
I listen to art crime podcasts to farm for ideas and to research specific topics. Here are a few I recommend:[…]
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What if we look at crime in a new way?
A mystery is only as good as its villain. Have you ever heard that quote? I think it’s really good[…]
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WHY WON’T JUST STOP OIL, JUST STOP? Why should they?
The British environmental activist group, Just Stop Oil, calls for the UK to stop licensing new oil, gas or coal[…]
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West Cork, An Audible Original Podcast
Review of West Cork, An Audible Original Podcast
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Surrounded by beauty – Can an object ask you to commit a crime? PART TWO OF TWO
WHAT COMES OVER SOME PEOPLE?In part one, we asked if art crime was different from other illegal activity. When there’s[…]
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Can an object make you commit a crime?
PART ONE OF TWO Usually criminologists study the criminal, but many of today’s scholars recommend an object-centric approach for understanding[…]
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Happy Birthday, Raymond Chandler
If Raymond Chandler were alive today, he’d be 113. Still, he lives on, not only in his own massive oeuvre but also in the books and short stories of writers who read Chandler and were never the same.
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