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Don’t Have Nightmares, Do Sleep Well: Why 1980s Crimewatch Is A Slice Of Social History

The BBC’s crime investigation reality show re-examined.

The Unremarkable Nature Of The Serial Killer: Exploring Dennis Nilsen’s Autobiography

The book they wanted to ban turns out to be an unsettling look into the mind of a murderer – and just how ordinary he actually was.

The Deadly Results Of Sex Shaming And Guilt Transferrence

Why are we surprised that years of demonising the sex industry and pushing ‘sex addiction’ as a problem that is caused by outside forces is resulting in violence, abuse and discrimination?

Making A Monster: The Scapegoating Of Colin Stagg

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The demonisation of an innocent man over lurid sex fantasies and the belief that there is no smoke without fire – a cautionary tale.

Fallen Star – The Life And Mysterious Death Of Star Stowe

Looking back at the rise and fall of the Playboy Playmate and KISS muse.

The Jonestown Recordings

The revolutionary and nightmarish audio recordings of the fanatical religious / political cult leader.

Charlie Hebdo, Five Years On

The fallout of the Charlie Hebdo killings and the brief flowering of support for free speech that followed, remembered five years on.

The Fred West Tabloid Feeding Frenzy

How the New Year’s Day suicide of Fred West opened up the floodgates of tabloid sensationalism over his unspeakable crimes.

Exploiting The Dead

We should be very concerned about anti-BDSM campaigners using murder trials to push their moralising agenda.

The Family Gathering

The Confession Of Peter Sutcliffe

The story of the Yorkshire Ripper in his own words.

Shocking And Sensational: True Crime Books Exposed