ShortHand: The Warrior Gene

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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For centuries, a question has fascinated scientists: can you identify a murderer based on their physical or neurological characteristics? And, if so – what could you do about it?

In this week’s ShortHand, we sum up the research into criminal brain chemistry, and look at the dangers of explaining away acts of extreme violence.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello. You know what we're going to say. We are coming to North America for a live tour in 2023.
0:07.3	And I will sing the star-spangled banner and also learn the Canadian anthem. Oh Canada, that's the bit.
0:13.8	That's what I know though. I assume there is more. So yes, we are coming on tour.
0:17.6	And this is very exciting guys because if you are listening to this on the day of release,
0:22.3	then pre-sale tickets for all patrons are out two day right now. Maybe I don't know the timing.
0:28.9	It's out today. So please head on over to patreon.com slash red handed for all of the links and
0:34.0	the secret passwords you need to get your tickets right now. We're going to spreading ourselves
0:39.5	all over like butter between March and April 2023. So make sure you grab your tickets. If you're
0:45.2	not a patron, don't worry. Everyone else's tickets are going on sale on Friday, the 9th of December,
0:50.8	which is this week. And links will be available directly from our website redhandedpodcast.com.
0:55.8	Don't fuck with anyone else. They always fuck it up. Just redhandedpodcast.com. Don't make
0:59.4	the same mistake we made. And we'll see you on the road. Yay!
1:15.8	For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to figure out what separates us,
1:21.0	good, law-abiding citizens, from violent murderous criminals. In the late 1800s, a man regarded
1:28.6	by many as the father of scientific criminology, Dr. Cesar Lombroso, studied incarcerated criminals.
1:36.8	Lombroso believed that criminals were kind of a sub-human being, a step back on the evolutionary
1:43.6	ladder. And after years of study, he concluded that criminals could be identified by their physical
1:50.8	characteristics, even in theory, before they committed a crime. Now, the cleverest among you
1:58.1	know that we are talking about the pseudoscience for anology, the practice of measuring the bumps
2:02.8	on a person's skull in order to determine their personality traits. I would be in big trouble,
2:07.5	because the back of my head is totally flat. Oh, dear. Got a shelf going on. If I ever lose my
2:13.2	hair, it's over. Oh, no. It's honestly such an unbearable shame. Oh, no. My friend who had a
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