The position and role of the media in crime prevention

 The increase in the level of crimes and the inefficiency of the single criminal policy, as well as the role of crime prevention, have become more clear. The best way to deal with the occurrence of crimes is to prevent the crime and not deal with the crime (punishment). Because in prevention, in fact, the reasons for committing a crime are destroyed and the effort is to stop the person from committing the crime and not to punish him for committing the crime. One of the most important methods and means of crime prevention in modern society is education and culture, which is obviously the first and best means to help for this purpose, mass communication means and the most effective of them are radio and television. Undoubtedly, informing and improving the level of public awareness of citizens can be effective in preventing crime and reducing harm and social anomalies. And what solutions can be offered in explaining the role of the media in crime prevention.

 This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method. In this research, in order to collect information from the library method, by using resource extraction, and to collect answers to questions, as well as using existing sources, news sites and specialized articles, the topic has been explained.

 Findings and results of the research:

 The findings of the research indicate that visual and audio, written and virtual media in a world where the age of communication and information technology has reduced the world to the size of a village in the formation of crimes, orientation and even prevention It is effective from crime. In this regard, solutions based on media program expertise have been presented in three dimensions in the formation of crimes, orientation and even crime prevention.