Paul Darnell Crime

Name of source: Law & Order

Type of Source: Television Show

Area of Study: Crime Fiction

Basic Summary of Source Content:
Paul Darnell is a convicted sex offender who is released from prison and just three months after his release, a young girl is found raped and murdered just around the corner from the ex-con’s childhood home. As the investigators discover that his childhood victim area is in the same town as the girl who was raped and killed, they decide to arrest him for questioning and receive a warrant to search his house. They find a pile of “self help” DVD cases, which in fact hides criminal porn discs in them; as a result, Darnell is put on trial as a suspect to the case. Darnell tries to convince the jury that he has
Interviews (with the suspect, witnesses, close acquaintances), identification (through photographs of both the victim and suspect) and court hearings (which occur quite frequently, which involve as many aspects as possible to help the jury decide whether Paul would be guilty or not) are all part of the tactics that the CSI team all go through to find the right person to fit the crime. According to medicine.com, a crime scene investigation (CSI) is defined as “the use of physical evidence at the scene of the crime and the use of deductive and inductive reasoning to gain knowledge of the events surrounding the crime.”

What are points of comparison between the source and your core text? * Between “Law & Order: UK” and “The Big Sleep” both investigating teams have tactics in order to find the suspected criminal/s. These are interviewing numerous people, asking around and getting hands on, in actually getting out into the field and doing work themselves. * Both have similar crimes involved: most common being murder. * Both involve a particular male / female role which is being victimised and criminal.

Name of the source: Gangster Squad

Type of source:
This story is quite diverse in relation to the other sources. Most of his crimes were not convicted, as he was able to cover up as an “innocent boy”. The theme of deception occurs; this is usually what a criminal has. They can lie, twist words and deceive into people’s thoughts of them. This source reveals that not all crimes go convicted; some are unheard of and leaves the criminal free. This can happen when there is little evidence, law is on the side of the criminal and even age can be a factor. Animal abuse, intentional harm and the reversed twist of the mother harming the child is the diversity of this source which is off path to the usual and generalised crimes occurring throughout crime fiction such as murder, rape, theft etc. Although this is a different aspect, it is still a unique understanding of the different types of crime related to the core