The Effect of Media on Crime: With Emphasis on Pathological Aspects of TV and Internet

Abstract

Mass media are accounted as the significant and pervasive part of the society's system. Nowadays the vast presence of mass media in orienting the public opinions of the world is from undeniable realities that has influenced on contemporary world from numerous aspects. This meaning has proceeded to an extent that current era was called "media era". New society without mass media is almost unimaginable and living in the third millennium without media seems impossible. Media are always reminded as the effective factor on different social, political, economic and cultural domains. Since intellectual nourishment of most of the society's people is done through media, the media can be effective on persons, attitude to the environment. Media have positive and negative functions for the members of society and family especially children. Child and media have mutual, constant and effective relation. Both children are from the most serious interested and applicant of new media especially TV, computer games and internet and media have severe tendency to invest for producing the children and adolescents programs for attraction of new generations and imposition of inspirations of negative messages of media. From consequences of new generation media, pornography, violence and crime of media can be referred. This article studies the social pathology of media. The main emphasis of this writing is on analysis of social-mental threats of TV and internet and their effects on children and women from pathologic view.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4S2p154