Investigator Answers True Crime Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

Criminologist and former investigator Jillian Peterson answers the internet's thrilling questions about true crime. Can you spot the differences between sociopaths and psychopaths? Will criminals learn to avoid detection thanks to true crime shows?

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[anwaar]

Her reading these silly names and answering professionally is so funny to me

[akmalecha]

Jillian was one of my criminal justice professors in college. She is amazing and I’m so happy they got her on here

[waynepolo]

I’m glad you included the part about “…without really feeling them” in regards to psychopaths mimicking of others’s emotions they don’t understand. As someone on the autism spectrum, the challenges in understanding other people’s emotional states is very real, but that does not mean we LACK empathy or aren’t sensitive to emotions generally. The trouble is that we often shut down due to how overwhelming the intensity of feeling them truly is.

[deathchips]

fun fact: sociopathy or psychopathy are not listed in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders used by mental health professionals. Instead they refer to what's known as antagonistic personality disorders, most notably anti-social personality disorder which is most commonly associated with serial killers.

[jopo]

Jillian is amazing at presenting information. It's a crime she hasn't been on before.

[sto-humanfriendly]

Domestic abuse is such a big issue with small coverage... It's tragic

[Khritter]

Woah crazy that Puppet Combo got their question answered! They're an indie game developer who do horror games including those involving serial killers/etc, super cool to see this in the video :D

[LatoyaOKAY]

Hi. Londoner here 🙋
England is still very stabby.

[todesgabel]

I love how they follow up a video about Pickpocketing with an interview with a literal Criminologist

[jakeheez]

WIRED has got to be one of the best channels on youtube, this content is so good

[Arcticstar]

This was great. Lots of good insight and an excellent delivery.

I think she misread the comment at 0:44 tho. I think it was about how of all cold cases, 1% of them get picked up again some time later and get solved. So that would only contribute to ~0.5% of all homicide cases.

[lilacsbby]

2:57 i agree that citizens are more likely to point fingers and try to play the moral high ground… but also… doesn’t law enforcement ALSO accuse innocent people and subsequently ruin their lives…?

[HarajukuSiren]

On my dating profile it says my idea of a perfect first date would be hiking...I'm going to change it to a well attended/crowded...anything

[TheAwesomes]

Just wanted to say that someone not being able to figure out someone's emotions and mimicking them back is also common in autistic people, who are no more or less violent or empathetic than neurotypical people. Autistic people often have hyper-empathy, we just might not be able to recognize that someone is communicating that emotion to us, and thus come across as cold and uncaring when really we never want to burt someone's feelings and make them feel ignored/dismissed/ what have you. It's about not being able to quickly recognize the visual and tonal ques of someone's emotion, but that doesn't mean we can't relate and feel empathy for it once we realise whats going on. Autistic people can have problems verbalizing and outwardly expressing emotions as well as recognizing others doing so, but that doesn't mean we don't have plenty of empathy to go around, just needs to be a bit more on the nose for some of us. Can't tell you how many neurotypical friends have thought I didn't care about their problems, but I thought they were being very blazé about them and reciprocating the "vibe" because you don't want to like something is a bigger or smaller issue than the person living through it themselves in most situations. I've literally cried because I made some feel bad by not picking up on their feelings and responding accordingly, so obviously not that I lack empathy, i know it hurts to feel minimized and unheard, I just couldn't tell thats what was going on until it comes up later.
Please don't go around assuming people with this trait lack empathy, because its often not the case. Autism is currently diagnosed at 1 in 36 kids (autism, despite being a life-long, unchangeable thing, is almost always measured in children for some reason) and psychopathy is only about 1 in 100 people, so chances are someone doing this "tell" still isn't a psychopath.

[roshnidevi]

I'm surprised she talked about stress during covid and pulling back of policing, but not the gross social and financial inequalities that worsened since then.

[georock]

Great presenter, love her straightforward, non biased answers

[ulalaFrugilega]

Seems kinda obvious to me why murders would increase when families are suddenly forced to hang with each other and no one else 24/7.

[nottherocketman]

That was an absolutely fantastic Q&A. Incredibly well done by Jillian, thanks to all involved!

[KarenWallace-kupm]

This is the fifth Tech Support I've watched and by far the most engaging and entertaining. Love the professor!

[foxrox]

I assumed homicide spiked during the covid pandemic because of domestic abuse. Husbands murdering their wives due to lack of escape, and tensions building.