Analyzing Media's Influence on Criminal Justice in Australia

This essay analyzes the impact of media on the Australian criminal justice system. It discusses how media serves as a crucial public source for criminal information, influencing public opinion, and potentially affecting the fairness of trials. The essay explores the commercial pressures that shape media coverage of crime, the creation of public fear, and the potential for media to distort perceptions of crime. It also highlights the influence of media on criminal proceedings, police services, and the rights of a fair trial, particularly concerning courtroom cameras and their effect on witnesses and victims. The essay also touches upon the role of media in shaping public policy and the potential for moral entrepreneurs to use media to influence judgments, concluding that media plays a vital role in the criminal justice system and the community.

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Original post
Media has been functioned as one of the most crucial public sources for criminal
information (Roberts 2018). It has increased dependence on media as people can access any
update or news and the media also cover news from a regional or local level. However, the
media has a decent impact, as well as an adverse effect on the Criminal Justice System in the
territory of Australia. This paper has discussed the impact of media on the system of criminal
justice.
Such commercial pressure determines the contemporary treatment of media on violence
and crime. The result of media coverage has engaged in recreation to reshape the opinion of the
public, as well as the policy of criminal justice (Palmer, Lint and Dalton 2017). However, it can
be said that the media is not a mirror of criminal justice, but it deals with the reflection of several
events happened in this society.
The nature, as well as the extent of criminal reporting, has enlarged the size of any issue
and public has been left the alarm regarding such public order, as well as safety of public. It has
served such information of crimes in an exceptional provocative agent, which can be affected in
such a way that people may be influenced in crime. However, this report of crimes may be
informed for such crime and can be prevented in a better way.
The coverage of media in the criminal act has produced an emotional response in the
viewer as fear of crime and its punishment (Ceccato and Bamzar 2016). However, it may be
affected as a catalyst of offence in the mind of the public in society, as well as the Criminal
Justice System.

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Response
In the given essay regarding the effect of media in the Australian Criminal Justice
System, it has discussed the various aspect and strong influence of media in society. However,
this paper has failed to analyse the topic critically that the adverse effect of it on society has not
described. The adverse impact of media in the Australian Criminal Justice System and society is
essential because people of the community have supposed to believe on media as a primary
origin of the information. The potentiality of that paper is that it has discussed the impact of
media in the criminal proceeding and police service that it may create an encumbrance on the
right of such a fair trial in a criminal procedure. It is rightly said that media coverage, especially
the camera in the courtyard in any trial may affect the mind or behavior of the victim, as well as
the witnesses, which will be a contrary effect in the judgment of that case (Findlay 2015).
Through labelling on the crime, the media can be a cause of distorting such crime. The moral
entrepreneurs are able to use media for putting pressure on the higher authorities to do any
adverse judgment, which may affect the morality of the Criminal Justice System in Australia. In
a report, it has shown that any ferocious content of media can able to encourage the
characteristics of the delinquency and not an origin of crime (Rios 2018). Therefore, it can be
concluded with such reply that the media has a vital role in this Criminal Justice System and the
community.

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References
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Findlay, L., 2015. Courting social media in Australia's criminal courtrooms: The continuing
tension between promoting open justice and protecting procedural integrity. Current Issues in
Criminal Justice, 27(2), pp.237-245.
Palmer, D., de Lint, W. and Dalton, D., 2017. Crime and justice: a guide to criminology.
Thomson Reuters Legal Australia.
Rios, V.,2018. Media Effects on Crime and Crime Style.
Roberts, J., 2018. Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice. Routledge.