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crime in television  

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  • Print media, radio, and film provide the precedents for representations of crime in television. In fiction-based television programming, crime plays a key role in creating and increasing drama, though once in a while it becomes part of elevating humor as well. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Television, Crime in]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DXVBZTGH-9

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