Criminal Justice as Entertainment

First part Generally speaking, criminal and law enforcement television programs are very popular and ratings continue to increase over time. From the 1960s to the 1990s, more than a quarter of the best time was focused on topics of crime or criminal justice, the biggest theme of today's television, covering all kinds of programs ( Weigel and Jessor, 1999). . Based on the review of the literature by Carlson (2001), we observe that these studies characteristically contain five major interrelated areas: systematic knowledge and information, compliance, rights, police images, And violence and sacrifice.

Value and depiction of criminal justice in media news and entertainment media is often a moral game with street and decent values ​​theme. The interviewer attempted to let officials feel lost using provocative or insulting questions. Drama draws the impatience of heroes with red tape and praises their street for their revenge and personal respect. Klockars explained this tension in law enforcement as a "dirty Harry problem" named after the role of Clint Eastwood in the 1970's movie Dirty Harry. After all, the hero did what he thought was morally correct and traced the street rather than a decent law enforcement's values.

The main task of the criminal justice approach is to enforce the law prohibiting violence and guaranteeing "justice". The concept of personal responsibility, responsibility, guilt and guilt is the key to criminal justice in dealing with violence, and one of the main duties of the criminal justice system is "to strengthen justice". Guilt is judged as accurately as possible and properly punished. To prevent and respond to violence, criminal justice is largely dependent on deterrence, imprisonment and punishment and perpetrators' rehabilitation.