Criminology and the mastermind hypothesis

From the moment Kohberger was arrested, there's been an assumption that his studies in criminology enabled and/or enhanced his ability to carry out this crime.

His prior experience with forensics would have been much more useful for this particular crime.

Criminology is typically quite dry; it has a lot of crossover with social science, it's not really about how to do crime, but why you might do crime.

There's a very good one-page primer from NorthWestern here:

https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/news/2023/01/26/what-criminology

It is still, in scientific terms, a pretty new thing. I'm surprised more criminologists haven't spoken out about these assumptions, as they really dislike the idea it's some kind of murder school.