Crime and Punishment Tropes
Tropes that are specific to (or primarily appear in) Crime and Punishment Series.
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</sidebarmenu>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
- 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 Mans 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
- 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
- Its 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
- 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