If anyone watches this show, they know that it is an undercover documentary of sorts on the drug trade throughout America with cities such as Detriot, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, etc. On the show dealers are interviewed and explain everything about their business including the products, money gained from selling,

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Exploitation of crime for our entertainment is a now an everyday phenomenon in our society. We throughly enjoy watching people commit crime as long as its at their own expense. It’s exciting, fun and amusing. Although the public disapproves of crime mass media constantly glorifies the criminal actions. For example

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Gangland is one of the—if not the—most egregious peddlers of ‘crimesploitation’ consumed in America these days. What is crimesploitation? Crimesploitation is a portmanteau of the words ‘crime’ and ‘exploitation,’ and it describes a particular type of media text that exploits crime. I propose that crimesploitation is a genre with the

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