Media, crime and youth

Abstract

In this paper we have come to some important conclusions regarding the impact of media on young and crime. In the beginning, we have analyzed some principles of operant conditioning and social learning theory which can explain the influence of media on behavior of adolescents. After that is remarked that nowadays reality programs and social networks are especially dangerous in forming young's characters and some recommendations are given in order to improve this state. Regarding the relation between media and crime, it is discussed that moral panic and penal populism are one of the consequences of bad media's policy which is frequently caused by profit motive and inadequate perception of punitive penal policy. Finally, given examples of Je suis Charlie case and notorious story about Werther effect lighted up our explication of the importance of media in a contemporary society and confirmed the hypothesis that the media nowadays have incomprehensible power in forming people's behavior.