Films are privileged, albeit not highly scientific, media through which the public’s ideas “about the nature of crime” are shaped, and perceptions of audiences on crime and its ‘mechanics’ are altered by mediatised images of criminal activities and their impact on society[1]. This is the consequence of what Surette calls “the social construction of reality”[2]; indeed, according to the American penologist, when studying the intertwining of crime, criminal justice and the media, people obtain knowledge from the fictional picture of the world that media elaborate and propose to them. Their acts thus tend to be based on these artificial representations)[3].
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