How KRIMINIS is made

Who signs it

KRIMINIS is run and signed by Antonio Javier Castillo Martín, a Criminology graduate. He decides which villains enter the archive, which criminological theory explains each one and what gets published, and he answers for every page. It is not a newsroom or a peer-reviewed journal: it is a popular science archive with sources, and this page explains how it is made.

How a villain and its theory are chosen

Franchises are chosen by what people search for: Search Console data shows which series, films, comics and video games bring readers, and which characters are missing. Before a case file is opened, we check that the villain is not already in the archive under another name.

Every case file gets a theory assigned in advance, different from the ones the other villains of its franchise already use, and it has to fit what the character does in the work, not their reputation. If it does not fit, the theory is changed and the reason is given. Every case file also says what its theory leaves out: its limits.

How it is written: with artificial intelligence, and why we say so

Drafts of the case files, blog articles and guides are prepared with the help of language models (artificial intelligence), from a detailed brief: the villain, the theory, the structure, the sources to consult and the rules of this archive. That is how an archive of this size can be kept in two languages.

The AI does not decide what is published and is never a source. Along with the text, its work has to deliver a list of everything it could not verify: every chapter number, date, scene and bibliographic reference it did not confirm in a source. That list is where verification starts.

How every fact is checked

Every piece goes through a second, independent review, point by point, before it is published. Facts about the work are checked against its chapters and episodes (chapter summaries, transcripts and subtitles); academic references, against bibliographic catalogues (Crossref, publishers, libraries); where to watch a series, against what each platform actually offers in Spain. Whatever cannot be confirmed is corrected or removed.

That review is not a formality. In the October 2026 batches it corrected or removed between a fifth and almost a third of the points flagged: wrong chapter numbers, lines attributed to the wrong character, scenes in the wrong order, platforms that did not carry the series. When the review of a new article finds an error in a case file already published, the case file is corrected too.

A real quote or none

A line in quotation marks attributed to a character is only published if it appears in the official text: the subtitles, the script or the published edition. Every card quote is recorded with its original and its source, and an automated test blocks publishing a new quote without that record. If only a fan translation exists, there is no quote: the case file tells the scene in its own words. Song lyrics are never quoted.

With real people the rule is stricter: only proven facts, no invented lines, nothing about open cases beyond what a court ruling states, and the presumption of innocence first.

What we do not do

We do not invent sources or studies. We do not present as settled what criminology still debates. We do not explain a crime by a mental disorder, an origin or a physical appearance, and when a theory did —the born criminal, phrenology, eugenics— we tell it for what it was: a mistake with consequences. In cases of sexual violence or violence against children there is no graphic detail and the victim comes first. And the rule that sums it up: explaining is not excusing.

Automated checks

Before every release, more than ninety automated tests check the whole archive: that every card quote has its source recorded, that the Spanish and English versions of each page have the same structure, that no internal link leads to a page that does not exist, that every recommended book has its English title, that the figures in data articles are still true as the archive grows. If one fails, nothing is published.

Errors, corrections and expert review

If you find an error, write to contacto@kriminis.com with the page and what is wrong. It is checked, corrected, and the page’s update date changes. Pages are never considered finished: they are revised when new information comes out, for example when a new season of a series premieres.

KRIMINIS also wants outside criminologists to review its pages and sign that review. Today no page has one, and the expert review page says so, with the figure at zero, and explains how to take part.