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• Betrayal
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Tropes that are specific to (or primarily appear in) Crime And Punishment series go here. If it also happens regularly in other genres - think action and sci-fi, for starters - leave it out.

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Genres:

• Amateur Sleuth
• Buddy Cop Show
• Cop Show
• Crime Reconstruction
• Crime Time Soap
• Crime Time TV
• Detective Drama
• Forensic Drama
• Law Procedural
• Little Old Lady Investigates
• Mystery Of The Week
• The Perfect Crime
• Police Procedural
• Reverse Whodunnit

Tropes:

• Absence Of Evidence
• Acquitted Too Late
• All Crimes Are Equal
• All In Hand
• Alone With The Psycho
• Always Murder
• Ambulance Chaser
• Amoral Attorney
• Armed Blag
• Asshole Victim
• Atonement Detective
• Audit Threat
• Bank Robbery
• Be As Unhelpful As Possible
• Beneath Suspicion
• Big Brother Is Your Friend
• Big Secret
• Big Store
• Blackmail Is Such An Ugly Word
• Black Market
• Bluffing The Murderer
• Book 'Em, Danno
• Bugs Meany Is Gonna Walk
• The Butler Did It
• By The Book Cop
• Calling Card
• Candlelit Bath
• The Caper
  • Double Caper
• Chalk Outline
• Chewbacca Defense
• Clear My Name
• Clueless Mystery
• Cold Reading
• Comatose Canary
• Connect The Deaths
• Corruption Of A Minor
  • Corruption By A Minor
• Cowboy Cop
• Crime After Crime
• Cut And Paste Note
• Cut Himself Shaving
• Da Chief
• Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster
• Dead Mans Chest
• Dead Person Impersonation
• Detective Mole
• Detective Patsy
• Dirty Cop
  • Bad Cop Incompetent Cop
• Dirty Harriet
• Dont Make Me Take My Belt Off
• Donut Mess With A Cop
• Dying Clue
• Empty Cop Threat
• Encyclopedia Browned
• Eureka Moment
• Everyone Is A Suspect
• Evidence Scavenger Hunt
• The Exotic Detective
• Exposition Victim
• Fair Cop
• Fair Play Whodunnit
• Faking And Entering
• Fatal Attraction
• Felony Murder
• Finger Licking Poison
• Fingertip Drug Analysis
• Flashed Badge Hijack
• Framing The Guilty Party
• Freaks Of The Week
• Going By The Matchbook
• Good Cop Bad Cop
• Good Lawyers Good Clients
• Guilt By Coincidence
• Hand Of Death
• Handy Cuffs
• Hanging Judge
• He Knows Too Much
• Hello Attorney (aka Legally Fruity)
• Hidden Wire
• Hollywood Law
• Impersonating An Officer
• Inkblot Test
• Insanity Defense
• Insignia Rip Off Ritual
• Insurance Fraud
• Internal Affairs
• It Never Gets Any Easier
• It's For A Book
• It Was Here I Swear
• Jack The Ripoff
• The Judge
• Jurisdiction Friction
• Justice By Other Legal Means
• Justified Criminal
• Just One Little Mistake
• Kangaroo Court
• The Killer Becomes The Killed
• Last Minute Reprieve
• Let Me At Him
• Locked Room Mystery
• Luxury Prison Suite
• Mafia Princess
• Magician Detective
• Make It Look Like An Accident
• Mary Kelly's Kidney
• McCloud Speech
• Miscarriage Of Justice
• Mistaken Confession
• Mob War
• Motive Rant
• Mugging The Monster
• The Murder After
• Murder Dot Com
• Murderer POV
• Murder The Hypotenuse
• Necro Cam
• Never One Murder
• Never Suicide
• Noble Bigot With A Badge
• No Tell Motel
• Not Proven
• Off On A Technicality
• One Last Job
• The Patsy
• Penal Colony
• The Penance
• Perfect Poison
• Perp And Weapon
• Perp Walk
• Pervs Sell Products
• Photo Psychic
• Pinkerton Detective
• Plea Bargain
• Plethora Of Mistakes
• Police Brutality
• Police Lineup
• Prison Rape
• Prison Sequences
• Private Defective
• Private Detective
• Private Eye Monologue
• The Profiler
• Profiling
• Pull The Thread
• Rabid Cop
• The Rat
• Reading Your Rights
• Retirony
• Returning To The Scene
• Saying Too Much
• Screw The Rules, I Have Connections!
• Screw The Rules, I Have Money!
• Screw The Rules, I Make Them!
• Selective Squeamishness Suppression
• Self Restraint
• The Sheriff
  • Clueless Deputy
• Sliding Scale Of Law Enforcement
• Smith Of The Yard
• Snuff Film
• Society Is To Blame
• Spock Did It
• Spotting The Thread
• Stalker Shrine
• Statute Of Limitations
• Suicide Not Murder
• The Summation
  • Summation Gathering
• Sus Law
• Suspicious Spending
• Sympathetic Murderer
• Taking The Heat
• Take Me Out At The Ball Game
• That One Case
• There Is No Higher Court
• There Should Be A Law
• Time Delayed Death
• To Know Him I Must Become Him
• Train Job
• Trial Of Somebody Besides The Defendant
• True Crime
• Turn In Your Badge
• Unknown Assailant
• The Unsolved Mystery
• Urban Legends
• US Marshal
• Vigilante Execution
• Vigilante Man
• Vomiting Cop
• White Collar Crime
• Whodunnit To Me
• Witness Protection
• Wrongful Accusation Insurance
• You Do Not Have To Say Anything
• You Fail Law Forever
• You Get Me Coffee
• You Got Murder
• You Have 48 Hours
• You Meddling Kids

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