Document Type : Original Article
Abstract
Crime films reflect our ideas about fundamental social, economic, and political issues; Films constitute an ideal tool for probing the nature and causes of deviance. Crime films expose viewers to national (and even international) debates about the causes of crime. Films draw on popular criminological explanations and in turn embody these explanations, feeding them back to mass audiences. This paper studies how Iranian films explain crimes. I have analyzed 8 Iranian crime films made between 1377 and 1384 by qualitative content analysis method. The findings show that Iranian films explain crimes based on three criminological theory; psychological theory, sociological theory and rational action theory.
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