"The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on one single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story. While traditional mysteries usually adhere to the convention of having the criminal's identity concealed until the climax, the so-called whodunit, in police procedurals, the perpetrator's identity is often known to the reader from the outset. Police procedurals depict a number of police-related topics such as forensics, autopsies, the gathering of evidence, the use of search warrants and interrogation." Wikipedia
- two kinds: one-off crime drama
long-running TV crime drama - each crime drama has it's own unique representational aspects
-> these are not directly related to the crime - stereotypical characters:
policemen and policewomen
male are more dominant
victims are often older people
Normally 5 key binaries:
- Crime/the police
- Criminals/the criminal justice system
- Lawyers vs. courts
- Social workers vs. the police
- Victims vs. the police
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