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Are you a personal fan of TV crime dramas or are you just disturbed by them? The past couple of months and/or in the past year tv crime drama have been becoming more popular. Whether people enjoy them or there’s been a case of boredom and there’s nothing to watch. Either way the viewers of tv crime drama have increased from the last couple of years. A crime drama is a type drama show, which has its primary focus or heroes, people whose main job or occupation is to investigate, punish or commit crimes- especially homicide, assault, robbery, etc. Notable crime dramas on TV history include Dragnet, Hill Street Blues, Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, The Sopranos and CSI. Most people without a doubt enjoy the thrill of crime …show more content…
“After all, we all have a built in sense of justice… this built in sense of justice could be the basis of our desire to watch the bad man go down.”(hubpages.com). Going back to Bruckheimer theory of the “White Knight” coming in to save the day. We like seeing criminals get the punishment they deserve. “So why is there a need to make these?(creative episodes). The obvious explanation is that it prevents boredom. Overtime the human mind has grown to solve puzzle and to see through intricate situations.”(hubpages.com). This explains why tv dramas are what most people enjoy watching. Besides the sense of justice we have people just tend to genuinely enjoy watching crime dramas. It sometimes isn’t the need to see the cruddy guys be put away, but the enjoyment of just watching all the crime fighting and action happening that makes you scream at the TV and get all excited about. “It is a combination of us trying to satisfy our sense of justice, our desire to feel good about ourselves and our urge to have thorough knowledge of someone else’s intentions that makes us so addicted to crime series.”(hubpages.com). While others might disagree and see no interest in crime drama because in general we see enough crime happening in real life whether you read it in the newspaper, media, or even seeing in it on you local 7 news we get sick and tired of watching crime happening all around the world. So, we understand the reason for the crime happening and the violence, but sometimes some the action or events that happen in crime drama are just too fake. “Jurors today want to see some kind of high-tech crime-fighting science, because they’ve seen it on TV: DNA off an eyelash left at the scene, or a magical fingerprint detecting camera. As a prosecutor, a large part of my job was bringing the jury’s expectations into line with reality, despite these TV show.”(Leotta).

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