Women and Crime

Hosted by criminologist Dr. Amy Shlosberg and forensic psychologist Dr. Meghan Sacks, Women and Crime looks at criminal cases through a lens most true crime shows ignore — the research. Both hosts teach at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and they bring that classroom energy to every episode without making it feel like homework. Cases feature women as victims, offenders, investigators, or all three at once. They cover famous names like Aileen Wuornos and less-covered stories about women serving decades for crimes committed by abusive partners. What sets the show apart is how often the hosts stop mid-story to explain the criminology behind what's happening. Why do juries treat female defendants differently? What does the data actually say about battered woman syndrome as a legal defense? When does coercive control cross into criminal conspiracy? You get context alongside narrative, and neither one crowds out the other. The tone is conversational, sometimes wry, occasionally angry in the way two academics get angry when the system fails for predictable reasons. Episodes drop weekly and run around 45 minutes. Good for anyone who likes their true crime with footnotes and less interested in reenactments than in why things went the way they did.