Prevention of Crimes: The fourth Estate as a Boulevard
PREVENTION OF CRIMES: THE FOURTH ESTATE AS A BOULEVARD Gargi Whorra* Sudipto Mitra**
Abstract
The media is a chief spring of information on felony and wellbeing for a noteworthy fraction of the world’s populace. Technology has made it easier for criminals to commit crimes at the same time facilitates people to stand against crimes through a social interface. With the incidence of mass media it has become easier to curb the menace of crimes. Media spotlight to crimes and can prove to be an effective crime prevention strategy, and a constructive contrivance for appealing to the wider interest of the public and educating the public on misjudged social norms or disregarded social troubles. This paper seeks to throw light on the principal conception of crime prevention and media help. It further delves into the issue as to why prevention of crimes is preferred more over punishments for crimes and how media qualifies as an entity which has an enormous role to play in hindering crimes and retaining the structure of the society.
This paper further tries to analyse whether media prevents or aggravates crime and answers the contention raised by substantiating it with reasonable ethical and jurisprudential backing. It also elucidates the role played by media in preventing crimes in India. The authors lastly conclude by discerning the ingredient element of anticipatory benefit and the areas which if worked upon can facilitate a strong and smooth functioning agreement between the fourth estate and other organs of the society.
Introduction: Call for the Transition
The world scenario has transcended into one where crime is stubbornly resisting the so-called punitive measures to fight it and thus calling upon innovative methods of preventing criminality, rather than punishing it.1 The prerequisite of crime
Abstract
The media is a chief spring of information on felony and wellbeing for a noteworthy fraction of the world’s populace. Technology has made it easier for criminals to commit crimes at the same time facilitates people to stand against crimes through a social interface. With the incidence of mass media it has become easier to curb the menace of crimes. Media spotlight to crimes and can prove to be an effective crime prevention strategy, and a constructive contrivance for appealing to the wider interest of the public and educating the public on misjudged social norms or disregarded social troubles. This paper seeks to throw light on the principal conception of crime prevention and media help. It further delves into the issue as to why prevention of crimes is preferred more over punishments for crimes and how media qualifies as an entity which has an enormous role to play in hindering crimes and retaining the structure of the society.
This paper further tries to analyse whether media prevents or aggravates crime and answers the contention raised by substantiating it with reasonable ethical and jurisprudential backing. It also elucidates the role played by media in preventing crimes in India. The authors lastly conclude by discerning the ingredient element of anticipatory benefit and the areas which if worked upon can facilitate a strong and smooth functioning agreement between the fourth estate and other organs of the society.
Introduction: Call for the Transition
The world scenario has transcended into one where crime is stubbornly resisting the so-called punitive measures to fight it and thus calling upon innovative methods of preventing criminality, rather than punishing it.1 The prerequisite of crime