The Peabody award-winning investigative podcast ‘Serial’ has over 300 million downloads across its three seasons.
It’s part of an even greater true-crime podcast fascination, ‘Crime Junkie’ and ‘My Favorite Murder’ podcasts also regularly top podcasting charts.
On Tuesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Kat Albrecht, assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University, talked with Rose about “The Serial Effect,” new research that seeks to explore how crime dramas and podcasts influence the way people understand the legal system.
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