INTRODUCING — Criminal Psychology
All In The Mind
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4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
On All in the Mind, we investigate why people behave the way they do. But there are some perspectives we don't often hear about.
Introducing Criminal Psychology, a special series diving into just that.
On this four-episode series, we'll cover arson, kleptomania, serial killers and Munchausen by proxy as we look at what drives people to the extremes of human behaviour.
And we'll examine how our understanding of the human mind can better help us to prevent harm.
Whether you're a dedicated fan of true crime or curious about the inner workings of our minds, stay tuned — our first episode is out on Sunday June 29.
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| 0:00.0 | You know when you're watching the news or scrolling on a news site, and you inevitably |
| 0:07.0 | come across a story about a crime? Maybe it's a murder, or arson, or even medical child |
| 0:14.2 | abuse. Three teenagers are being questioned on suspicion of arson. The mother has been charged |
| 0:19.5 | with deliberately harming her daughter. |
| 0:21.6 | West Australian police are convinced the crimes are all committed by one individual, a serial killer. |
| 0:26.6 | Have you ever wondered how the person at the centre of that story got there? |
| 0:32.6 | Like what drove them to a criminal extreme? |
| 0:35.6 | Almost everywhere I go now I have to steal something, which is really disabling for me. |
| 0:42.9 | On all in the mind, we're always curious about why people behave the way they do, |
| 0:47.7 | but there are some experiences we don't often hear about. |
| 0:51.2 | Abuse, neglect, bullying, adverse childhood backgrounds. |
| 0:55.0 | You can't imagine doing that yourself. You can't imagine somebody doing that to you. |
| 1:00.0 | In this special four episode series, we're going to be looking at unusual minds and unusual crimes. |
| 1:07.0 | What makes people cross the line into criminal behaviour on everything from arson? |
| 1:11.8 | They're setting those fires away to experience either intense physiological arousal or to experience tension release. |
| 1:18.6 | To medical abuse and mouchasins by proxy. |
| 1:21.6 | Are they evil or are they damaged? Are they both? |
| 1:25.6 | To theft and kleptomania. After the stealing, they often will describe |
| 1:29.5 | a sense of pleasure or gratification. |
| 1:31.6 | I've never been caught and |
| 1:33.1 | I hope to let it stay that way. |
| 1:35.2 | All that and more is coming up on our new series |
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