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police procedural en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes.
   • Seeming “real” has been the aim since the earliest police procedurals, which began a long tradition of Hollywood productions acting as a mouthpiece for police departments. 2021 April 24, Adrian Horton, “‘The uprisings opened up the door’: the TV cop shows confronting a harmful legacy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • But sometimes, what a devoted crime reader wants isn’t anything too fancy. Sometimes, what we want is a good, solid police procedural, preferably set somewhere interesting, preferably with a troubled, renegade investigator who refuses to listen when their boss tells them to leave an avenue of investigation alone. 2017 October 3, Alison Flood, “A Patient Fury by Sarah Ward review – classic police procedural”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

Relateds

whodunnit · whodunit

Translations (8)

it poliziottesco (sub-genre of crime fiction) · es procedimiento policíaco (sub-genre of crime fiction) · ko 경찰물 (sub-genre of crime fiction) · es policíaco (sub-genre of crime fiction) · fr roman policier (sub-genre of crime fiction) · ca procediment policíac (sub-genre of crime fiction) · sv procedurdeckare (sub-genre of crime fiction) · pl dramat kryminalny (sub-genre of crime fiction)