Between Crime, Coffee, and Curiosity: The Unexpected Reasons I’m Starting This Blog.

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If you study law with criminology long enough like me, your life starts to fill with three things: crime, coffee, and a nonstop growing curiosity you just can’t seem switch off, it may seem ‘cringe’ but when you start looking hard enough, the power of learning and wanting to becomes an incredible tool.

This blog was born somewhere between all three.

I have to say this is not from some big revelation, not from a perfect plan but from small moments that slowly shifted how I see the world. Moments during lectures, on bus rides, in late-night study sessions, and while overhearing conversations that made me think, wait… is it really that simple?

Spoiler: it’s not.

Where It Really Started

One of the first times I realised my degree was changing me wasn’t in class at all. I knew I liked my course when I came to uni, but I didn’t quite realise how much I would grow into it.

I noticed it when I overheard someone react to a crime story on the news with, “Look at his face you can just tell he did it.”

Just like that.
A judgement formed in seconds.
No context.
No facts.
No hesitation.

After that, I began noticing similar reactions everywhere, especially when the suspect was from an ethnic minority. People said things like, “Well, of course he was Black,” or, “These people always do that,” or, “You can tell by the way he looks.”

It hit me harder than I expected.
Because once you study crime and justice through a structured lens, you start seeing how dangerous those assumptions are and how they’re tied to stereotypes, media framing, and historical biases most people don’t even realise they’re repeating. What used to look simple suddenly became layered, messy, and deeply human.

Seeing the Layers Beneath the Headlines

Studying law and criminology teaches you to notice things the public rarely thinks about. You learn how suspects can be framed long before they reach a courtroom. You see how race, class, and background influence how people are judged. You understand how the media shapes public perception long before evidence appears. You begin to recognise how a single narrative can change someone’s entire life. You also start noticing how legal, social, and economic systems shape behaviour and outcomes in ways most people overlook.

You stop seeing just the crime and start seeing the context.
You stop seeing just a suspect and start seeing a story.
You stop accepting a reaction at face value and start wondering what shaped it.
And suddenly, what used to be “obvious” is no longer obvious at all.

Why I’m Starting This Blog

Because these observations feel too important to keep in my head.

Because I’m learning things that make me rethink the world in real time.

Because writing helps me process the complexity and the contradictions, the uncomfortable truths, the unfairness, and the surprising moments of clarity.

As a student, I’m in a strange but valuable position. I’m close enough to the theory to understand it, but close enough to real life to question it. This blog is a space for those questions. It’s where the curiosity spills over. It’s where I explore everything that lives between crime, coffee, and the conversations no one seems to be having out loud.

What You’ll Find Here

This is not a true crime blog, and it’s not an academic journal either. It’s something in between: a student’s perspective on the hidden layers of criminal justice, the biases and assumptions we rarely discuss, the cases and concepts that changed how I think, my reflections on the systems behind crime and punishment, and how studying criminology changes the way you see people and the world around you.

Expect honesty.
Expect complexity.
Expect questions more than answers.

The Beginning of Something

Starting this blog feels like opening a door I’ve been peeking through for a long time.
If you’re curious about crime, justice, bias, and the stories beneath the surface, you’re in the right place.

We’re navigating this messy, fascinating space together one mug of coffee and one question at a time.