The position of the media in combating economic corruption

Today, prevention from economic corruption and dealing with different types of economic corruptions are raised as inevitable necessities of human life. Since prevalence of economic corruption and lack of serious measures against it contribute to socio-economic inequalities and spread of public distrust in political system and legal entities and regulations, fighting against economic corruption is deemed as one of the basic necessities of national legal system of Islamic Republic of Iran and there are significant regulations for dealing with economic corruption in Iran. One of these legal and judicial rules is public media disclose. In this study, the role of public media disclosure in dealing with economic corruption is addressed. The main question of present survey is, “In what ways can public media disclosure curb economic corruption in society?” In this study, it is presumed that by introducing convicts, public media disclosure informs the public opinions and identifies economically corrupt figures and this makes it a type of capital punishment. The most significant finding of this survey suggests that public media disclosure identifies and introduces economically corrupt figures who misuse their social, administrative or political position and cause social inequality and economic corruption. In addition, since economic corruption creates the necessity of public measures against it public disclosure punishment contributes to identification and introduction of economically corrupt figures and creates a type of public peace and social trust in legal regulations and Islamic Republic of Iran. In this survey, descriptive-analytical methodology is adopted and archival and library sources are reviewed to collect the necessary information.