Effect of Mass Media on Crimes of Children and Adolescents

Abstract

Many of the researchers, thinkers and reformers identify the current age with different names such as Technique Age, Communication Age, Global Village and Remote Leadership. Indeed, remote leadership is not only true for satellites and spacecrafts, but it is also true for remote leadership by mass media for human. Findings of this survey show that if Television’s programs are guided towards human’s excellence, it can be one of the effective factors in preventing crimes in children and adolescents. But programs which do not pay attention to such purposes may issue violent crime in imitating actors, and make coexistence with adults and real world difficult and the adolescents show social repugnance against the instilled ideas. Most of the films create sweet dreams for children and sound superior than real. When films are not consistent with religious beliefs, local traditions, culture’s level, ethics and specially age category, they will cause crime and stroke victims. Regarding the superior importance of the wide role that media play in today’s life this article aims to investigate the role of media in crime of children and adolescents.