“Põe na tela”: a importância da mídia televisiva na construção de estereótipos de criminosos

Abstract

Every social organization represents a universe of citizens, interests and mechanisms that together allow the most diverse activities to be developed. The collective needs organization, in this sense the State uses its devices to maintain social welfare, notably exercising its punitive prerogative actively: investigating, judging and arresting. The present study focuses on how the media exert their role as influencers and opinion maker towards taxing / stereotyping the criminal within the community, bringing together aspects of the positivist criminology and the criminal law of the enemy in profiling the offender. and disrespect those fundamental guarantees guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and endorsed by the UN. In this sense, this study started from the following problem: How does the media act in the production and reproduction of stereotypes of criminals? From then on, seeking to answer it, the study's objectives were elaborated, in a general prism: to analyze the performance of television media in the production and reproduction of stereotypes of criminals. Using a qualitative approach and with bibliographic research, through a deeper investigation of legal documents, doctrines, articles and monographic works with thematic relevance, it was distinguished by the reach of these points in order to carry out, satisfactorily, all research. It was concluded, in the final lines of the research, that the force of the influence that the media exerts on society ends up, in fact, creating stereotypical groups and making the community observe them as being true enemies, eliminating from the harmonic coexistence less favored community.