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Personally? I think it depends on the crime. I used to sing "who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?" In preschool, didn't scar me for life.

That said there are some shows like Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Bones and any of the CSI shows that I wouldn't even show to kids under the age of 17. Just because I watched those shows as an adult and while I like some of them, I still find a few of the episodes of CSI traumatic. And thats coming from a grown up.

If I was going to write a mystery for kids it'd depend largely on the age group. From my experience as a scare actor, I wouldn't put a whole lot of graphic violence in anything made for kids under the age of ten.(point in case the nineties Batman: The Animated Series. Seeing Clay Face get drowned in cosmetics and the Joker fall into a vat of chemicals kinda scared me when I was about six or seven.)

Kids over a certain age, just to be arbitrary, say sixteen. Might be able to handle a full blown dude man what got his face eaten by rats after he died. But I still don't know if they'd be able to cope with a mystery or crime with complex adult things happening. Like say, a graphic description of a man being processed like an animal carcass in a slaughter house.

But thats just my opinion.