The Major Causes Of Juvenile Crimes Via Mass Media&the Countermeasures To Be Taken

Juvenile crimes, involving every aspect of society, havereceived more and more attention as a social issue. Such phenomenonmakes people worried. Restraining juvenile crimes not only relatesto the social stability and unity of our country, but also relatesto juveniles growing healthily. Yet, the environment of minors’study and life has connected with the media closely. While juvenilecrimes are increasing constantly, the connection between juvenileand the public media becomes more and more closely. Is there aconnection between the two parties? And what is the cause? The writerin her research discovers that public media have bad influence onjuvenile crimes. How do public media cause their crimes? What kindof change will the bad media bring to their hearts? And whatconnection is there between the minors’ psychological changes andtheir crimes? Certainly there is a close connection with their crimecauses. At least, these mentioned above would exert an imperceptibleinfluence. Therefore, this thesis starts analyzing the influence ofthe media on juvenile crimes, aiming at finding a solution to prevent juvenile crimes caused by media.This20000-word paper contains three parts including thefollowing:The first part introduces the notion and features of juvenilecrimes and makes a further statement on the basic circumstance oftheir crimes illustrated by several cases.The second part of this paper contains the theoretical researcheson the media causes of the juvenile crimes, in addition to theanalysis of some relevant cases in this field. Firstly, this partoutlines the media causes of the juvenile crimes, and explains thatto what extent and in what way the media cause juvenile crimes. Andthen analyzes intensively the effects that the bad media bring tominors’ hearts. Secondly, this paper explores the transmitting pathof the media causes of the juvenile crimes, revealing the mechanismthat the media affects the juvenile crimes. According to the writer,public media influence juvenile crimes from the following routes:magazines、cinemas and television、news、internet, among them, theinternet does worst. Thirdly, this part still analyzes the mediacontents which cause juvenile crimes, mainly studying the influence of violence as well as sex in media. Finally, this part explores theinfluence of school and family education on juvenile crimesexaggerated by social media. The research to the influence of themedia on juvenile crimes can be beneficial to analyzing the causesof their crimes.The third part is the suggestion of the solution to restrain themedia from influencing juvenile crimes. This part mainly studies themeasures to be taken from the perspectives of Communication andCriminology. We should make some efforts from the following aspectsto prevent the juvenile crimes: controlling the occurrence of thebad effects, cultivating the juveniles’ media taste, restrictingthe harmful media, combining the efforts of parents、teachers、andsome others to take some comprehensive measures. What’s more,working to make full preparation to change the present situation isalso appreciated.