Crime Time Office Hours
This is a podcast that cuts through the noise to make crime and justice clear, one issue at a time. I’m Kevin Buckler, PhD in Criminal Justice, and a professor at a four-year public university. I plan to bring you sharp, unfiltered conversations and content about the issues shaping our legal system, our communities, and the academic world.
Podcasting since 2025 • 5 episodes
Crime Time Office Hours
Latest Episodes
S 1 E 4 Houston Serial Killer Panic: The Real Cultural Anxieties
In this final episode of our four-part series on the Houston serial-killer panic of 2025, we look beyond the rumors in the bayou to examine the deeper forces shaping the city’s fear. We unpack why “targeted” violence still feels threatening in ...
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S 1 E 3 Houston Serial Killer Panic: Medical Examiners' Reports and Undetermined Cases
In this episode, death investigations expert Elizabeth Gilmore takes us inside the medical examiner’s office to explain how cause and manner of death are determined—a process that is far more complex and far more critical than most people reali...
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S 1 E 2 Houston Serial Killer Panic: Cultural Understandings and Empirical and Definitional Realities
This is the second episode in our four-part series on the Houston serial killer panic of 2025. This episode takes a closer look at how we think—and often misthink—about serial murder. I sit down with two criminologists who bring both clarity an...
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S 1 E 1 Houston Serial Killer Panic: Serial Killers in American (Popular) Culture
This is the first episode of a four-part series on the Houston serial killer panic of 2025. This installment traces the panic’s deeper lineage, following its evolution from the serial killer anxieties of the 1970s and 1980s through the rise of ...
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