The effectiveness of the media in committing and preventing crime in the light of cultural criminology

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student of criminal law and criminology, U.A.E Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dubai, UAE.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Increasing media diversity on the one hand, and the availability of traditional media (press, television) and modern media (cyberspace and social networks) on the other, have led criminologists to examine the effects of the media on crime. Carefully observed and studied Put. In this research, which has been prepared and arranged in a descriptive-analytical method, the issues raised have been around the answer to the basic question of ‘what negative role the media plays in increasing crime rates in societies from the perspective of criminology and its different approaches. The results and findings of the study confirm that traditional and modern media are effective in committing crime. This effect emanates from some cases such as the normalization of crime and the spread of violence, imitation, learning and an increase in Crime rates, change in the concept of crime, heroism, decline in media quality, disruption of the criminal justice process, the spread of prostitution, violation of privacy and the like. Different approaches to criminology in this regard also believe that the media through moral fear, broken window theory, social control theory, populist approach and the like will be effective in increasing crime. Other theories, such as the theory of prevailing ideology, pluralism, coercion and anomaly, labeling, and differential linking, agreed upon the effect of the media on crime.

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  • Receive Date: 14 May 2022
  • Revise Date: 24 July 2022
  • Accept Date: 25 August 2022

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