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More and more media providers are cashing in on our love of looking at booking photographs.

Newspapers such as "Newsday" and the "Palm Beach Post" now run sections of nothing but mug shots of those arrested the day before, and have found this feature to be among the best drivers of traffic to their Web sites. There are also many local weeklies that offer little besides a parade of mugshots.

Media expert John Watson likens the phenomenon to horror movies: "We like being frightened without being in actual peril. These are pictures of monsters who actually exist, [but] we can look at them from the safety of wherever we are, and they disappear when we close the book."

Here at Asylum, we'd never publish a mug shot just to scare people. Not when there are so many sexy lady mug shots out there that need to be disseminated to a mass audience.

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