Media fiction focuses on murder and other violent crimes. Murder was the most frequent offence in crime movies since 1945.
Offenders in crime fiction are mainly middle-aged, middle-class males as opposed to the young, working-class males in official stats and self-report studies.
The police clear-up rate is very different from the picture given by official stats. In crime fiction, the police usually 'get their man'. According to official stats, they usually don't!
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