Youth, Crime, and the Media

YOUTH, CRIME, & THE MEDIA The media plays a major role in creating the distorted images of our youth that we the public perceive. Most of these images emphasize problems like crime, drug use, and teen pregnancy. The skewed coverage in today’s media results in the belief that youth crime is on the rise. Today’s portrayal of teens in the media employ the same stereotypes that were once only openly applied to unpopular racial …

…youth accomplishments, and conducting voluntary periodic audits of news subject matter and sharing the outcome with news consumers. The media can shape, further than coverage of a lone event, the way the public views a situation, a group of people, or an image. It can have an effect on how people in influential positions think, from police officers to judges. One of the reasons for the overrepresentation is a consequence of people acting on stereotypes.