Media Presentation of NZ Youth Crimes: Negative or Positive?

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The Media Presentation of NZ Youth in Public Spaces: Negative or Positive?
Part A
Check out the front page or the breaking news section of the News Website “New Zealand
Herald.” The recent editions of this news website might alarm a reader about the existence of
“crimes done by the youngsters in the country. Many social experts feel that media is blowing it
out of the proportion and creating a negative perception about the youth of the country because
the offenders are in minority and majority of the youngsters are still pious, they are far away
from alleged crimes and malpractices like “Teenage pregnancies,” Drunken Driving, “drugs” and
other scandals. This report is an attempt to analysis the paradox between the media reporting of
youth crimes.
Article Selection Strategy
The selected articles are an outcome of a systematic literature review conducted on an
exhaustive level. The fundamentals behind searching these articles were governed by the “ crime
& punishment theories”, crime motivation theories, “role of active and passive policing” related
to the youth crimes and “means of reforms that can be adapted to “control teenage crimes and
bring the offenders back in the mainstream of the events.” They reflect upon the basic “modus
operands” of some general crimes, necessary actions that should be taken to deter the teenagers
and the mechanisms that can be introduced to curb down the criminal tendencies that are
brewing up in the teenagers. I selected four articles covering four different aspects of the issue

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but intertwined with each other in terms of the progression of a discussion. These articles cover
the sociological and psychological impacts behind the “teenage crimes.” They also comment
upon the perception created by the media over the issue.
1. Article One: “ Three youths have been arrested after an alleged spree of incidents in Glen
Eden” by Ben Leahy. Published: 24 December 2018.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12182065
2. Article Two: “ Son gives chase after spying thieves driving Mum’s stolen car” by
Belinda Feek. Published: 28 February 2018.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12003355
3. Article Three: “Epsom motel murder: Teens jailed for a minimum of 10 years”.
Published: 24 May 2018.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11643667
4. Article Four: “ Haami Hanara sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of
Hastings man Kelly Donner”. Published 5 February 2019
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12200890
Article Summaries:
Article one is reporting a crime that took place in the Glen Eden on December 2018, it
presents a blow by blow account of the unruly behavior of three teenagers. The police report
says that three unruly teenagers approached a group of individuals on the west coast road and
after a verbal exchange attacked on them. During the course of this fight, two among them
snatched the bag from one of the citizens and dashed away. Two among these teenagers are