O Medo como forma de seletividade penal: os fundamentos da criminologia midiática

Abstract

The present paper makes an analysis about the behavior of the collectivity and how the human being naturally follows the tendency of selectivity through judgment and identification. When crimes are sensationalistically exploited by various sectors and vehicles of mass communication, there is an enormous power of persuasion about society. In this way, as spectators become increasingly frightened and insecure, justice is sought through punitivism and indifference. Thus, the objective was to analyze how the characteristics of media criminology and the founding criminal elements for the construction of the stereotype of the delinquent. To do so, the methodology of bibliographic research for the publication of the proposal of intervention is based on the exposed theme. In this way, it is observed that the set of elements result in the criminal selection that governs the principles and the guarantees of the chosen ones as undignified for living.