Episodes

  • Criminal Motives - Unravel the darkest intentions with Alexandra Reeves
    Mar 29 2026
    Join veteran journalist Alexandra Reeves as she ventures beyond the headlines to uncover the psychological forces driving criminal behavior. In Criminal Motives, explore the broken neural pathways, traumatic environments, and self-deceptions that transform ordinary people into offenders. This unflinching series examines the uncomfortable question: why did they do it?

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    1 min
  • Criminal Motives - The Stories They Tell Themselves
    Mar 29 2026
    Alexandra Reeves explores how offenders use cognitive distortions—denial, minimization, and blame externalization—to justify heinous acts. This episode examines the psychological narratives criminals construct to override moral constraints, the role of trauma-induced detachment, and how cognitive behavioral therapy offers hope for rehabilitation by dismantling these self-deceptive stories.

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    32 mins
  • Criminal Motives - Made, Not Born
    Mar 29 2026
    Host Alexandra Reeves explores how childhood poverty, family dysfunction, and neighborhood violence create pathways to criminal behavior. Drawing on longitudinal studies showing those born into poverty are twenty times more likely to commit crimes, she examines social learning, peer influence, and trauma's role in shaping criminal outcomes—asking what society's responsibility is in preventing crime before it happens.

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    26 mins
  • Criminal Motives - The Fearless Brain
    Mar 29 2026
    Host Alexandra Reeves explores groundbreaking neuroscience research linking amygdala deficits, prefrontal cortex dysfunction, and blunted fear responses to criminal behavior. Drawing on longitudinal studies and prison population research, the episode examines how neurological differences—not moral failing—can elevate crime risk, challenging assumptions about choice, accountability, and the biology underlying why people cross the line.

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    23 mins