Crime and Media from Cultural Criminology Point of view

Cultural Criminology as a modern approach in Criminology, Sociology and Criminal Justice, examines the balance between the context of culture and criminal process in contemporary social life. A part of the meaning of Culture from this Criminology point of view focuses on the dynamicity of mass media which significantly concerns criminal subcultures. This particular field uses the notions of cultural studies, the theory of postmodernism and sociological views such as the Interactionist Tradition as well as the Media Content Analysis Method, to investigate the relations between crime and media considering the usage of meaning, symbol and image. In this regard, Cultural Criminology investigates the impact of the mass media’s role in generating moral fears of crime, as well as expanding penal populism approaches in terms of concepts such as moral entrepreneurs and cultural hegemons. Furthermore, this Criminology analyzes the role and influence of media types in crime through education and modeling mechanisms under the influence of capitalist flow. This Descriptive- Analytical article seeks to answer the question of how criminology looks at the mass media and what the implications of media roles and functions are. The results show that this Criminology implements new elements, such as power, to an analytical media of crime and considers crime as the construct of the media, in the same way as it can be the construct of other cultural phenomena.