The Impact of Media on Juvenile Delinquency: A Research Report

This report investigates the multifaceted relationship between media and juvenile delinquency, exploring how social media and violent content influence youth behavior. It examines the overrepresentation of youth crime in news coverage, the impact of violent video games, and the role of movies and music in shaping young people's attitudes and actions. The report also discusses Bandura's social learning theory and its application in understanding and addressing juvenile crime. Furthermore, it outlines effective prevention strategies, including education and community involvement, while referencing relevant statistics from sources like the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCVS) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). The analysis highlights the need for a comprehensive approach to mitigate the negative effects of media and promote positive youth development.

JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
 Social media is responsible for
transforming the social issues and those
issues are then shaped into stories in
order to sell the magazines.
 The way things are portrayed over
social media in many ways lead to
incidents of juvenile violence.
 In the context of mass media, the
producers make use of the social
problems in order to entertain the
viewers.

ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
 Overrepresentation of the youth crime
within the news coverage somehow
influences the youth who at times get
engaged in delinquent behaviour.
 The media emphasizes on the powerful
sources that focuses on the factor of
repressive framing.
 The media groups often create a fear
related to crime within the society and
those repressive measures can
significantly help in eliminating juvenile
delinquency in the society.

CONTEMPORARY
SITUATION
 A large number of youth are engaged in
status offences and illegal acts like
underage sex have become common in
the present era of technology.
 The juvenile court intervenes with the
kids who have been caught in some kind
of routine teenage behaviour.
 The youths with criminal mentality can
be reformed with the help of loving hand
of the parent figure.

MEDIA AND JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY
 Juvenile delinquency can prove to be
difficult to measure and that juvenile
delinquency shares relationship with of
institutions like family and media.
 Playing violent video games is co-
related with that of aggression. It can be
said anti-social behaviour within the
realm of juvenile justice sample is to a
large extent unknown.

VIDEO GAMES AND
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
 It is found that violent playing of video
game was associated with that of
composite measure in relation to
delinquency.
 It is also seen that violent playing of
video games are linked with the factor
of anti sociality even within the ambit of
clinical sample.
 These effects might help in withstanding
robust influence of that of multiple
correlates in relation to juvenile
delinquency.

MEDIA AND DELINQUENCY
 Media can excite violence in an individual in
different manners. The movies that have
violent acts can excite the spectators and it
produces aggressive energy in the everyday
life of an individual.
 It can push individuals to engage themselves
in physical activities on that of the streets.
Television often portrays the violence taking
place in daily life that are committed by the
parents and the peers.
 These Imposes penalties on the occasion of
failing to study or in relation to violation of the
rules are often depicted on the television.

MOVIE AND MUSIC
 Movies play a vital role as it often
influences the lives of young people
 The fictional stuffs shown in the movies are
thought as real by the children
 For example, portrayal of violence in
movies often triggers negative behaviour
among children
 People pursuing in music are often
addicted to drugs which is another
dangerous substance for the children
 Certain lyrics of songs may also be
inappropriate for children

SOCIAL LEARNING
THEORY
 Bandur’s social learning theory is
important as it describes the fact that
people learn from experience
 This theory forms a bridge between the
behavioural learning and cognitive
learning
 It provides opportunities to learn
innovate and motivate others to lead a
proper life

APPLICATION OF
BANDURA’S THEORY
 In the case of the juvenile crimes, the
application of Bandura’s theory can help
the youth to understand the things that
they have done wrong
 The behaviour of the kids caught in
illegal acts can be used as an example
to teach other kids to behave properly
and respectfully in the society

METHOD OF PREVENTING
JUVENILE DELIQUENCY
 One of the most effective prevention
strategy of preventing juvenile
delinquency is education.
 Children need to be taught at an early age
about the pros and cons of the legal rules
 Education in the form of legislations need
to be provided so that the children can
understand the laws that need to be
respected.

CONTD..
 Another prevention strategy that can be
used for preventing juvenile delinquency
is involvement in community services
 Children can be encouraged to work in
community cares and homes so that
they can grow up to be a good Samarian
 Community involvement can help the
children identify the things that require
respect in the society