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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Devil You Know... Depictions of Crime in Television


“Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.”  
~ Ted Bundy

On any given day, you can turn on your t.v. and watch any number of crime shows. Chances are if it's a Tuesday or Sunday, there's a Law and Order: SVU marathon on. Every year, more and more crime shows are released with increasingly extreme premises; we have vampire detective romances and futuristic cyborg police dramas. Psychic detectives and the supernatural have become a norm. Crime shows are no longer restricted to dramas; we have comedies, and even a few failed reality shows. We have become so desensitized that our concumption of crime has become part of our entertainment routine.