About The Crime We Create

We need to talk about what we're doing here.

I'm Julia, and I'm a social psychology nerd who can't stop thinking about true crime. Not because I love the gore or the mystery, but because I'm fascinated by us. By what happens when millions of people collectively decide to care about a case. By the patterns in who we pay attention to and who we ignore. By how our clicks, shares, and theories shape real outcomes for real people.

What This Podcast Is About

The Crime We Create examines how our collective attention and behavior around criminal cases generates both help and harm. Sometimes we crowdsource evidence that solves cases. Sometimes we destroy innocent lives with false accusations. Sometimes we do both simultaneously.

The patterns in who receives our empathy, our resources, and our relentless scrutiny reveal uncomfortable truths about the systems we've built and continue to maintain.

Why This Is Different

This isn't your typical true crime podcast. I'm not here to sensationalize tragedy or spend forty minutes on forensic details you could find anywhere.

Instead, I use real cases as laboratories for understanding:

  • Group behavior and moral panics

  • Selective attention and media narratives

  • How collective choices create real consequences

  • The gap between cases that go viral and cases that disappear

Each episode applies what I call the "Seven Pillars of Harm," a framework that categorizes the different types of damage collective attention creates. From active harassment to passive indifference to systemic inequity.

My Approach

I approach these stories as collaborative examination, not finger-pointing critique. I use "we" because I'm part of this too. I've clicked on the headlines, followed the cases, and contributed to the very dynamics I'm analyzing.

This podcast exists in the tension between our genuine desire to help and our tendency to cause harm. Between our need to understand violence and our complicity in exploiting it.

Who This Is For

If you're tired of true crime that treats victims as entertainment, you're in the right place.

If you've felt conflicted about your own consumption habits, you're in the right place.

If you're drawn to the psychological and sociological questions underneath the headlines, you're in the right place.

This is for people who want to think critically about the stories we tell, the attention we give, and the crimes we create together.

New episodes drop every other Tuesday.