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Criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw follows the story of one teenage runaway in 1958 into a shadow world of experiments on children, covert CIA involvement, and vanished indigenous children. In Project Mind Control, we hear a story of an international effort to weaponise psychology and control human behaviour. The truth may never be fully revealed, but the crimes demand to be uncovered. In 1958, teenage runaway Lana Ponting was sent to one of Canada’s most notorious psychiatric institutions: The Allan Institute. Now Dr Julia Shaw speaks to her about the experiments she endured there, ...

This audiobook presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities - revealing the tremendous activity that ordinary people displayed in responding to crime - alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice. 

Control Studies is a true crime podcast that goes beyond the case — analytical deep dives into the predatory psychology and operational failures of real killers across history and around the world. How they got caught. What broke their methodology. What the serial killer mindset looks like when it's functioning at its most disciplined — and where it fails.Each episode is a behavioral analysis of a real case. No sensationalism. No horror. Just the killer methodology, the failure, and the forensic psychology behind it.For true crime listeners who want to understand how killers think at the ...

Host Alexandra Reeves investigates how drug cartels corrupt and become governments. From officials serving two masters to how fighting corruption unleashes worse violence, this series examines organized crime and political power across Latin America. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

The author of three books on CIA operations, Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency's activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials who had been involved in various aspects of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret. The CIA would eventually rescind it and made every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix Program, which documented an elaborate system of population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment, torture, and assassination in Vietnam.

Guns from America reach more than 130 countries, and inundate Mexico, with over 200,000 guns every year crossing the border and arming the drug cartels. In this groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, master of reportage Ioan Grillo delves into the enormous black market for firearms in the Americas. Along the way, Grillo lays bare the many ways that guns slip through the legal cracks and into the hands of criminals, fuelling violence among Mexico’s powerful cartels and beyond.

Alexandra Reeves investigates the Sinaloa Cartel's transformation into a near-indestructible criminal enterprise. Discover how franchise-style decentralization, underground engineering, and strategic global expansion created a smuggling empire operating across 40 countries. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

The "gripping and inspiring" true story (Washington Examiner) of how Congressman Steve Scalise survived a political mass shooting and returned to Congress with the help of his friends, family, and faith. On the morning of June 14, 2017, at a practice field for the annual Congressional Baseball...

'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening...

Mexican cartels weaponize violence as calculated strategy, not chaos—from theatrical executions to military-grade territorial battles. Host Alexandra Reeves reveals how brutality functions as governance, propaganda, and power projection, transforming extreme violence into a deliberate language of control. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Alexandra Reeves investigates invisible borders carved across Mexico by criminal organizations that defend trafficking corridors with military force and govern territory like shadow states. From plaza battles to quasi-governmental control, this series reveals how cartels transformed land into warfare-driven power architecture. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by our modern devices, and brutal police...

Lean in and absorb the compelling stories, guests and commentary on Power & Control with Stephen M. Thompson. Listen to discussions about the realities of stalking, sexual assault, intimate partner violence and much more. Learn to identify the signs of predatory behavior and hear the experiences of survivors, as well as expert analysis of current events and high profile cases.