The author claims that filmic depiction of crime is important to criminological theory because it represents the popular culture perspective of certain criminological topic’s. In the book, it blames scholars for having a, “narrow and rigid view of theory…” that makes people disinterested in the topic of crime from a scholarly view. Films on the other hand are credited of creating images that represent crime being depicted that makes us in general more emotionally invested. The emotional investment audience gain from watching a movie is important in how they perceive crime as a populace.
