Media hegemony and populist action responses to delinquency in the democratic model of criminal policy

Although the function of mass media in educating people and raising public awareness is undeniable, but the growing crime in today's societies and the influence of mass media, has led to a sense of insecurity among citizens and qualitative changes in crime. An indicator that leads criminal policymakers of the democratic model to adopt populist action measures with cross-sectional achievements in the design of crime prevention strategies.

Methodology: 

The author has used a descriptive-analytical method to explain the hegemony of the mass media and the effect of this in adopting populist preventive measures against crime.

Mass media in countries subject to the democratic model of criminal policy can selectively reflect the inefficiency of criminal control institutions in the minds of the public and the audience by selectively reflecting criminal news and depicting precriminal situations of criminals and victims and ease of crime. Adopting a strategy of maximum control tends to restrict the rights and freedoms of the individual and the community as a whole. The dominance of the mass media, especially in Western countries, has led to the reflection of criminal events leading to increased fear of crime, fear of victimization and feelings of insecurity among members of society. An indicator that achieves the conditions for advancing the rights and freedoms of citizens and benefiting from defensive forms of crime prevention by overcoming the situational preventive strategy to achieve quick-return and mass-oriented results in order to convince public opinion.