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That fascination is widespread, especially in the United States, where tens of millions of fans devour true-crime shows on streaming services, on major TV networks, on podcasts and in books. More than 1. On March 20, when Netflix released Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness , a true-crime docuseries about a feud in the world of big-cat breeding, viewers were captivated.

The series, packed with quirky characters—some missing limbs, many missing morals—drew more than 34 million unique viewers in the first 10 days of its release, rivaling the third season of the streaming hit Stranger Things , according to Nielsen, an independent company that provides viewership data across multiple channels. Netflix said Tiger King has been viewed in 64 million homes worldwide since its debut. Boling echoes other scholars of the genre who attribute its surge in recent years to the critical and popular success of Serial and to the docuseries Making a Murdere r on Netflix and The Jinx on HBO, which both aired in The appetite for strong stories is especially robust as the COVID pandemic forces hundreds of millions of people to stay home, offering an unprecedented opportunity for binge-watching.

While confined to the couch, millions of more viewers in the U. On April 12, Fiance had its best night for ratings in 11 years among viewers aged 25 to But Henry Schleiff, the Investigation Discovery president, says true crime fills a need for more than mere entertainment by distracting viewers from the chaos outside while providing them a sense of predictability and justice, since most of the shows end with authorities solving the crime.

It had about 21, more visitors in March than in January, says Reisner, who lives in New York City, which has become the epicenter of the disease.

Long before the pandemic, demand for the genre had sparked film festivals, an annual convention called CrimeCon, and CrowdSolve, a CrimeCon spin-off event in which amateur sleuths try to solve cold cases.

Before the pandemic hit, Balfe had anticipated an even larger crowd at CrimeCon in Orlando, which has been rescheduled from early May to the end of October. Some psychologists say female viewers may be drawn to the genre to pick up on survival skills or to figure out what they might have done differently under similar circumstances. They may also relate to the subjects of most true-crime entertainment, in which the victims are overwhelmingly female even though, in the U.

True crime shows have helped law enforcement agencies capture hundreds of fugitives and have led to boundless tips, multiple arrests and some convictions. Has a criminal offence been committed?

Such will disputes are unfortunately not uncommon. His first thought was that the solicitor who gave up the will, with neither proof that the executor had authorised it, nor checking the identity of the person who was collecting it, was remiss. It depends what the intent was: if it was to stop someone inheriting, this probably was a crime under the Fraud Act Environmental transmission of violent criminal behavior in siblings: a Swedish national study.

Psychological Medicine , ; 1 DOI: ScienceDaily, 28 April Virginia Commonwealth University. Criminal behavior: Older siblings strongly sway younger siblings close in age. Retrieved November 12, from www. The More the Merrier? Researchers have long studied how Since the start of the pandemic, Americans have been talking seriously with friends, family, and themselves about the shortcomings of their modern-day work lives.

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Red Notice has A-list actors, globe-trotting set pieces, and a notorious art thief. Why is it so boring? The star-laden blockbuster, which is dropping on Netflix this week, features three A-list names, all in familiar roles: Dwayne Johnson as a tough FBI agent, Ryan Reynolds as a motormouthed art thief, and Gal Gadot as a mysterious criminal who forces the two men to team up against her.

The work is complete with globe-trotting set pieces, self-aware jokes delivered straight to the camera, and constantly shifting loyalties as each character tries to stay ahead of the others on the quest for some glittery MacGuffin.

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