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Tropes that are specific to (or primarily appear in) Crime and Punishment Series.

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Related Indexes of Works

• Crime Fiction
• Crime and Punishment Series
• Mystery Literature

Related Indexes of Tropes

• Abuse Tropes
• Cops and Detectives
• The Courtroom Index
• Criminals
• Forensic Phlebotinum
• I Have Your Index
• Index to The Rescue
• Morality Tropes
• Murder Tropes
• Mystery Tropes
• Perp Sweating
• Prison Tropes
• Revenge Tropes
• Steal This Index
• Toxic Tropes
• Victimhood Tropes

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Genres:

• Androids and Detectives
• Buddy Cop Show
• The Caper
• Cop Show
• Crime Reconstruction
• Crime-Time Soap
• Crime-Time TV
• Detective Drama
• Double Caper
• Forensic Drama
• Mystery Fiction
• Law Procedural
• Little Old Lady Investigates
• Police Procedural

Tropes:

• Absence of Evidence
• Accidental Kidnapping
• Acquitted Too Late
• After-Action Villain Analysis
• All Crimes Are Equal
• Alone With the Psycho
• Always Gets His Man
• Amateur Sleuth
• Ambulance Chaser
• Amoral Attorney
• Armed Blag
• Arrested for Heroism
• Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving
• Artistic License Law
• Assault With A Deadly Antler
• Asshole Victim
• Atonement Detective
• Audit Threat
• Bank Robbery
• Be As Unhelpful As Possible
• Because I'm Good At It
• Beneath Suspicion
• Big Secret
• Big Store
• Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word
• Black Market
• Blatant Burglar
• Bluffing the Murderer
• Book Em Danno
• The Boxing Episode
• The Butler Did It
• By the Book Cop
• Calling Card
• Candlelit Bath
• Caper Rationalization
• The Cavalry Arrives Late
• Chalk Outline
• Clear My Name
• Clear Their Name
• Clue, Evidence, and A Smoking Gun
• Clueless Detective
• Clueless Mystery
• Coat Full of Contraband
• Cold Reading
• Colliding Criminal Conspiracies
• Comatose Canary
• Come to Gawk
• Common Nonsense Jury
• The Con
• Confess to A Lesser Crime
• Condemned Contestant
• Con Men Hate Guns
• Connect the Deaths
• Consulting a Convicted Killer
• Contract On the Hitman
• The Convenient Store Next Door
• Conviction By Contradiction
• Conviction By Counterfactual Clue
• Convicted By Public Opinion
• Le Cops Sportif
• Cop and Scientist
• Corruption By a Minor
• Corruption of a Minor
• Coincidental Dodge
• Cowboy Cop
• Crime After Crime
• The Crime Job
• Crime of Self Defense
• Criminal Mind Games
• Crusading Lawyer
• Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists
• Cut and Paste Note
• Cut Himself Shaving
• Da Chief
• Damn, It Feels Good to Be A Gangster!
• Dead Man's Chest
• Dead Person Impersonation
• Death in The Clouds
• Destroy the Evidence
• Detective Mole
• Detective Patsy
• Diabolical Mastermind
• Dirty Cop
• Dirty Harriet
• Disposing of a Body
  • Fed to Pigs
• Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off
• Don't Tell Mama
• Donut Mess With a Cop
• Dudley Do Right Stops to Help
• Dying Clue
• Eat the Evidence
• Emancipated Child
• Empty Cop Threat
• Eureka Moment
• Everyone Is a Suspect
• Evidence Scavenger Hunt
• Evil Plan
• Exalted Torturer
• The Exotic Detective
• Exposition Victim
• Fair Cop
• Fall Guy
• False Confession
• Faked Kidnapping
• Faking and Entering
• Fatal Attraction
• Felony Murder
• Finger in The Mail
• Finger-Licking Poison
• Fingertip Drug Analysis
• Flash Mob Coverup
• Flashed Badge Hijack
• A Fool for A Client
• Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
• Frame-Up
• Friend On the Force
• Found the Killer, Lost The Murderer
• Gentleman Detective
• Give Me Back My Wallet
• Going By the Matchbook
• Good Cop, Bad Cop
• Good Lawyers Good Clients
• Grave Robbing
• Great Detective
• Guilt By Coincidence
• Guilt Ridden Accomplice
• Had to Come To Prison To Be A Crook
• Hand of Death
• Handy Cuffs
• Hanging Judge
• Hardboiled Detective
• He Knows Too Much
• Hello, Attorney! (aka Legally Fruity)
• Hidden Wire
• Hollywood Law
• Hollywood Police Driving Academy
• Identification By Dental Records
• I Fought the Law And The Law Won
• Impersonating an Officer
• Important Character, Important Evidence
• Incriminating Indifference
• The Informant
• Infraction Distraction
• Inkblot Test
• Insanity Defense
• Insignia Rip Off Ritual
• Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
• Insurance Fraud
• Internal Affairs
• Interrogating the Dead
• It Never Gets Any Easier
• It's for A Book
• It Was Here I Swear
• I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
• Jack the Ripoff
• Janitor Impersonation Infiltration
• Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
• The Judge
• Jurisdiction Friction
• Just Got Out of Jail
• Just One Little Mistake
• Just Partners
• Justice By Other Legal Means
• Justified Criminal
• Kangaroo Court
• The Ketchup Test
• The Killer Becomes the Killed
• The Killer Was Left-Handed
• The Kindnapper
• Last-Minute Reprieve
• Leave No Witnesses
  • Manslaughter Provocation (aka Driven to Murder)
• Let Me At Him
• Let Off By the Detective
• Locked Room Mystery
• Luxury Prison Suite
• Mafia Princess
• Magical Database
• Magician Detective
• Make an Example of Them
• Make It Look Like an Accident
• Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
• Might As Well Not Be in Prison At All
• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
• Miranda Rights
• More Criminals Than Targets
• Motive Misidentification
• Miscarriage of Justice
• Mistaken Confession
• Mob War
• Motive Rant
• Mugging the Monster
• My Rule Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
• Necro Cam
• Noble Bigot With a Badge
• No-Tell Motel
• Not Me This Time
• Not Proven
• Obstructive Vigilantism
• Occult Law Firm
• Off On a Technicality
• Off the Record
• Old Cop, Young Cop
• Ominously Open Door
• One Last Job
• One Phone Call
• Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
• The Peeping Tom
• Penal Colony
• The Penance
• The Perfect Crime
• Perfect Poison
• Perp and Weapon
• Perp Walk
• Phone-in Detective
• Phone Trace Race
• Photo Psychic
• Pinkerton Detective
• Play-Along Prisoner
• Plea Bargain
• Plethora of Mistakes
• Police Brutality
• Police Lineup
• Pregnant Hostage
• Prison Episode
• Prison Rape
• Prisons Are Gymnasiums
• Private Detective
• Private Eye Monologue
• The Profiler
• Profiling
• Public Execution
• Pull the Thread
• Punishment Box
• Rabid Cop
• Rape and Revenge
• The Rat
• Reading Your Rights
• Real Estate Scam
• Rear Window Investigation
• Rear Window Witness
• Regularly-Scheduled Evil
• Retirony
• Returning to The Scene
• Rewind, Replay, Repeat
• Rogue Juror
• Safecracking
• Saying Too Much
• Screw the Rules I Have Money
• Screw the Rules I Make Them
• Screw the Rules I'm Beautiful
• Selective Squeamishness Suppression
• Self-Restraint
• Serial Killings, Specific Target
• The Sheriff
• Shipped in Shackles
• Shouldn't You Stop Stealing?
• Sick, Sad Subculture of the Week
• Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement
• Smith of the Yard
• Smoking Gun Control
• Snuff Film
• Society Is to Blame
• Spotting the Thread
• Spousal Privilege
• Stalker Shrine
• Statute of Limitations
• Steal the Surroundings
• Stepping Out for A Quick Cup of Coffee
• Sticky Fingers
• Stock Punishment
• Strangers On a Train Plot Murder
• Suicide, Not Murder
• The Summation
• Summation Gathering
• Supercop
• Sus Law
• Suspect Is Hatless
• Suspect Existence Failure
• Suspicious Spending
• Suspiciously Idle Officers
• Swiss Bank Account
• Sympathetic Criminal
• Sympathetic Murderer
• Tag-Along Actor
• Taking the Heat
• Take Me Out At the Ball Game
• A Taste of the Lash
• Ten Little Murder Victims
• That One Case
• Theme Serial Killer
• There Are No Police
• There Is No Higher Court
• There Should Be a Law
• Tort Reform
• Throwing the Fight
• Time-Delayed Death
• To Know Him I Must Become Him
• Train Job
• True Crime
• Turn in Your Badge
• Undercover Cop Reveal
• Unishment
• Unknown Assailant
• The Unsolved Mystery
• Urban Legends
• Useless Security Camera
• US Marshal
• Vigilante Execution
• Vigilante Man
• Vomiting Cop
• Wanted Poster
• Win Your Freedom
• White Collar Crime
• Who Watches the Watchmen?
• Witness Protection
• Working On the Chain Gang
• Wrongful Accusation Insurance
• You Didn't Ask
• You Do Not Have to Say Anything
• You Get Me Coffee
• You Have 48 Hours
• You Meddling Kids