True crime

True crime is a genre of non-fiction detailing crimes.

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Many such books or articles feature high-profile, sensationalistic crimes as serial killers, the O. J. Simpson case, and the Pamela Smart murder, while others are devoted to more obscure events. Although reports and stories about true crimes have circulated throughout human history, and (often sensationalized) crime coverage is a long-standing staple of newspaper reportage, the modern "true crime" genre often considered to have begun with Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood, published in 1966. Later prominant true crime accounts include Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter, Anne Rule's The Stranger Beside Me, and Joe McGuiness's Fatal Vision. The modern genre, which most often focuses on murder cases, is frequently marked by biographical treatment of the criminals and victims, attempts to explain criminal psychology, and descriptions of police investigations and trial procedures. Following especially after the success of the movie The Silence of the Lambs, a sub-genre of true crime has focused on methods of "profiling" of unidentified criminals, especially serial killers. Although true crime books of course center on sensational, shocking, or strange events, a secondary part of their appeal is that they often contains elements of social realism that are often not found in other non-fiction media, e.g., detailed descriptions of working class or socially marginal people and their lifestyles.

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Non-fiction: Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. It is one of the two main divisions in writing, particularly used in libraries, the other...

Crime: A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law. In the narrow sense, a crime is a violation of the criminal law. For example, most traffic violations or breaches of contract are not crimes in a legal sense....

Serial killer: Serial killers are individuals who, on multiple occasions spread out through time, murder victims who are generally unknown to them beforehand. Their crimes are committed as a result of a compulsion that, in many but not all cases, has roots in the killer's (often dysfunctional) youth, as opposed to...

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