Talk:True crime

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Proposal for WikiProject Crime

A proposal for WikiProject Crime has been made at the WikiProject Council. MadMax 22:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Further reading section

It's past the Wikipedia:Spam event horizon. 86.121.18.17 (talk) 21:56, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Missing information

This article is notably missing the popular and widespread Internet videos, primarily on Youtube, covering True Crime. Such channels are "JCS - Criminal Psychology" (whose latest video currently has 40M views), "That Chapter", and "The Fifth Estate". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18D:681:A6C0:3407:3784:D6D9:D62D (talk) 04:23, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

This article is missing some information from more recent media. Adding specific true crime "crazes" might aid in this article's overall impact. This article also might be improved by adding some more pictures! Sr10721 (talk) 17:07, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Source Contradicts Claim

Not sure if I'm reading this wrong, but the source used to claim that True Crime increases Death Penalty support (ref 33) says:

Table 5 presents logistic regressions on support for the death penalty. In model 1, town and city dwellers were less likely to support the death penalty, whereas those with a more conservative political ideology were more likely to support it. Unlike support for the criminal justice system, viewing nonfictional crime shows was unrelated to death penalty support, whereas viewing crime dramas predicted death penalty support. Each additional day of viewing crime dramas increased the odds of supporting the death penalty by 11 percent. Again, both news viewing variables were statistically no significant, and no interaction terms were significant. In model 2, fear was introduced into the regression, and in model 3, perceptions of the crime rate were introduced into the regression. Fear was unrelated to death penalty support, as were perceptions of the crime rate. These variables did not mediate the relationship between viewing crime dramas and death penalty support. Jubeanation (talk) 05:35, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Media Studies

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Overview of the history of true crime

there's a source: True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism that seems to be a pretty good overview of tracking how true crime changed and could wrap the History section together, but i'm struggling with how to incorporate it and keep the existing chronological flow. Ideas? Ejones0 (talk) 19:01, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Split

Does anyone object to splitting content out about podcasting? I started a draft for true crime podcasts and then realized that this page exists, but this seems to be true crime in general. TipsyElephant (talk) 01:19, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Why do true crime podcasts need their own article? 90.196.144.26 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:16, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

"Edison Research" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Edison Research has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 June 8 § Edison Research until a consensus is reached. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 14:29, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

The breadth of the term's use

I've long wanted to ask whether fictionalized films/series about real-life criminals or crime fiction based on true crime media can be considered true crime? For example, the biographical crime anthology series "Monster." Or is it easier in such cases to talk about true crime elements or crime works based on real events? Most media I read or watched usually refer to true crime documentary podcasts and literature as true crime. Solaire the knight (talk) 17:28, 6 October 2025 (UTC)