Crime is among many circles of culture: videogames, rock, literature and cinema. It has become an aesthetic model. How far can it get? Reality and fiction. Where is the boundary? Is violence necessary in cinema, literature or videogames? How did they become an essential element? Crime has become an added element of the current popular culture thanks to its widespreading through novel, films, television, or comics. It has been introduced to the extent of being included as an element of the language of our time which imbues culture and works as an aesthetic model for many. The author, Francisco Pérez Fernández, a specialist in Criminology, offers us an overview of some motley expressions of crime regarding their typologies, varieties and protagonists, as a mass phenomenon popularized by several sources and aesthetics trends of the entertaining business. This work covers the most varied expressions of crime insisting in a special manner on its typologies, varieties and protagonists, as a mass phenomenon popularized by several sources and aesthetics trends of the entertaining business. Crime has become an added part of the current popular culture thanks to its widespreading through novels, films, television, videogames or comics. It has been introduced to the extent of becoming an element of our current language which imbues culture and works as an aesthetic model for many. This work deals with the crime phenomenon as a catalyst of pop culture in an accessible, acute, and efficient manner, and without giving up the rigor required by the subject.