Dr. Coltan Scrivner

Most of them sit back and plot and they either select their victims specifically or they select the time and location and just happen upon someone.

But they typically plan their routes and plan their crimes pretty meticulously.

And those are the kind of individuals that you have trouble spotting just out on the side if you pass them on the sidewalk, right?

And that's what makes true crime stories particularly interesting because the only way to sort of learn what kind of individual, when I say kind of individual, I mean, you know, the type of person who had a certain upbringing or their personality or the way they behave with other people, the only way to learn what kind of individual might be like that

is to consume a bunch of stories about people that were like that so you can kind of only learn about it after the fact and that's very different from reactive aggression and reactive aggression individuals are actually signaling to you that they want to hurt you if you try to um if you try to transgress them right so uh like going back to the chimp example a chimp will bear its teeth or do other things to suggest to you that you shouldn't try to take the resource that it wants

Some humans do that.

We certainly do that a little bit.

But we do it far less than other animals.

And instead, we rely more on planning and plotting.

And that tends to be a more dangerous kind of violence when it comes to group living, right?

And we punish it differently.

And so we see that instinctively as a much more dangerous kind of crime, specifically because those people are harder to spot.

They're harder to identify in the real world.

I mean, there you know, there probably are certain cues that that lead to that.

Right.

And many of those might be shown in a true crime documentary, for example.

So women are women are more likely to be a victim of violence to someone that they know well than men are.

Right.

And typically that's a romantic partner, but it could be a family member or friend.

And a lot of true crime, again, kind of mimics that.