criminal mind
noun
: the mind of someone who commits crimes
We're trying to understand how the criminal mind works.
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Starring Toshiro Mifune, as the rookie cop, and Takashi Shimura, as the seasoned detective who keeps him on the right side of the law, Stray Dog (Nora Inu) goes beyond a crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 June 2025
There is a curiosity about how the criminal mind works and how crimes are planned out.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 9 June 2025
There is a curiosity about how the criminal mind works and how crimes are planned out.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Criminal mind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criminal%20mind. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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