¶ … role of media in effecting the human perception regarding Juvenile Delinquency. The Works Cited five sources in MLA format.
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Media affects our view of the world and the issues therein. This is because, "media messages are cultural products that communicate norms and standards" (Descartes & Kottak) As Dow views, "television programming (is) public discourse that carries important meanings for its viewers, meanings that cannot be separated from their links to the larger context in which television is created and received" (Descartes & Kottak).
When extended to other forms of media, the above observation remains valid. Sequentially, the media in its own way has addressed issues pertaining to both work-family and the changing roles of parents thereby leaving a strong impact on its consumers, bringing about a change in their perceptions of various issues accordingly.
Therefore, it can be safely culminated that "the media both reflect and help shape our concerns and worldviews. The process is not a one-way imposition of media imagery and ideology on malleable spectators...viewers interpret what they see in the light of their own preconceptions and also to reinforce such notions.
It is in this sense that television influences certain (adult) beliefs" (Descartes & Kottak). This is apparent from the media portrayal of children more receptive to behavioral problems whose parents work in Law and Order, one of the best ten American dramas. Nonetheless, a far important example is of 60 Minutes, production of a news program featuring true stories wherein one of the episodes revolved around the popular delinquent case of Nathaniel Abraham that received much media attention and in turn public as well as political and legal recognition. This program initially discussed the nature of the crime.
Then gradually delved into the reasons why Nathaniel Abraham committed the murder. However, the non-fiction work of media clearly implied to its' consumers that "Nathaniel's father had left the family when the boy was small and that Nathaniel had been raised by a mother who worked the night shift, leaving him home in the care of his older siblings" (Descartes & Kottak).
This research paper will discuss the role of media in the comprehension of the public regarding the juvenile delinquency cases in the light of Nathaniel Abraham case. The central question however remains that how does the media effect our view of Juvenile Delinquency?
The news media has the ability as well as the authority to show any juvenile as innocent or guilty thereby playing a vital role in effecting the court's decision and the public's attitude towards it. However, in the case of Nathaniel Abraham, an eleven-year-old child who was tested by the Michigan State court in the first-degree murder, the role played by the mediator and the catalyst, the media remained quite positive throughout thereby generating an upbeat decision from the legal authorities. "Nate" remained in prison from October 1997 until his lawyer finally arranged a trial and the court ordered to place him under rehabilitation care at the Juvenile Justice System until the age of 21 on January 13, 2000 (Nichols). Nathaniel Abraham had his case in Pontiac, Michigan where in the courts, the prosecutor accused him of murdering an 18-year-old Ronnie Green with adequate planning and a dormant motive "from a 22-caliber rifle" (Nichols). Abraham was charged for the first-degree murder when "the earlier ruling by Judge Eugene Moore of the Oakland Family Court followed evaluations by two psychologists who stated the 12-year-old had the learning and emotional abilities of a 6- to 8-year-old child" (Nichols).
Almost all the cases tested and tried in the courts involve various tactical maneuvers, at times by the media, often by the lawyers. Nathaniel Abraham's case was no exception. The politicians used this case to create hysteria among the public regarding these delinquent cases through wrongful information emanated through media channels. Whereas the lawyers misused the "facts about how and what the defendant did before the killing, his planning, his motive, facts about how the killing was done" in order to lead the jury into false thinking and compelling them to believe that the innocent mind had the ability to plan and deliberately commit the murder of an adult in the first-degree with a motive behind the accidental killing. In actuality, as William Lansat remarked in an interview, "when you think of premeditation and deliberation, the defendant knows the victim, stalks the victim, plans the crime. That is not what happened" in the case of Nathaniel Abraham (Nichols).
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