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Two recent Netflix true-crime titles have explored a form of domestic abuse that many people don’t know about: coercive control, which, according to Laura Richards, a criminal behavioral analyst formerly of New Scotland Yard who also trained with the FBI and created and hosts the Crime Analyst and Real Crime Profile podcasts, means “a set of behaviors that’s designed to isolate, to entrap and to exploit — but most of all, to dominate another person.”
In 2019, Bravo debuted Dirty John, based on a podcast of the same name by the Los Angeles Times‘ Christopher Goffard, which chronicled wealthy interior designer Debra Newell’s relationship with John Meehan, a con man with a history of manipulating and deceiving women using coercive control. Now, documentaries like The Tinder Swindler and the docuseries Bad Vegan have delved deeper into this type of behavior, which can...
Two recent Netflix true-crime titles have explored a form of domestic abuse that many people don’t know about: coercive control, which, according to Laura Richards, a criminal behavioral analyst formerly of New Scotland Yard who also trained with the FBI and created and hosts the Crime Analyst and Real Crime Profile podcasts, means “a set of behaviors that’s designed to isolate, to entrap and to exploit — but most of all, to dominate another person.”
In 2019, Bravo debuted Dirty John, based on a podcast of the same name by the Los Angeles Times‘ Christopher Goffard, which chronicled wealthy interior designer Debra Newell’s relationship with John Meehan, a con man with a history of manipulating and deceiving women using coercive control. Now, documentaries like The Tinder Swindler and the docuseries Bad Vegan have delved deeper into this type of behavior, which can...
- 6/21/2022
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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