The role of media activists in crime prevention in the light of criminal policy and digital criminology

Crime prevention in the digital environment is one of the important issues that has always been the subject of discussion. The role of media activists in the prevention of crime in the digital environment has not been paid much attention, and in this research, an attempt has been made to address this issue. Do they have crime prevention?

The present article investigated the mentioned question with descriptive-analytical method and using library method.

Media activists are effective in dealing with crime in the digital environment through criminal prevention in the light of criminal policy and through non-criminal prevention in the light of digital criminology. The role of media activists can play an important role in the criminal prevention of crime through the reflection of judicial events and public condemnation of crime, helping to detect and prosecute crimes, trial and conviction of criminals, searching and helping the police. Also, through social control, jurisprudence and criminology, and informing and warning, be effective in the non-criminal prevention of crimes in the digital environment.