Role of Media in Juvenile Crimes Commitment

In this modern era, juvenile crimes become one of the biggest social problems that usually occurred among our society. Juvenile crimes are the actions that committed by the unresponsible persons. Vandalism and shoplifting are some of the examples of juvenile crimes. Juvenile crimes usually committed by the teenager as they are more likely to be influenced by many factors. They think that by doing that, they will look more up to date or cool. In this case, media plays a vital role and be the one which responsible to this issue. So, I am strongly agree that the media is the main cause to the juvenile crimes that oftenly occurred nowadays. It is due to media is very interesting and has a great influence in shaping nowadays generations.

First thing first, I think media is the main cause of juvenile crimes because people nowadays are exposed to the social media every single day. Not only the adult but the younger generations also does. So, with this exposure, people especially the young generations or the teenagers are more likely to be influenced by the media as this generation is controlling and dominating the number of users in social media nowadays. This can be proved by looking at the data from the social media company which saying 60% of the social media users are from young generations. With the evolution of social media such as Instagram, twitter and facebook, the teenager wanted to share their daily activities. By that, they want to impress their followers with some cool stuffs but they are not aware of the things that they really do. They usually not thinking about the bad consequences of doing that. They tend to commit juvenile crimes such as destroying the road sign or defacing wall to create content to be posted on their social media. So, it is clearly portrayed that social media also give bad influence to the teenagers if they use it in a wrong way.

Next, I personally also think that by having television series that promoting violence actions is also the cause of this issue. Nowadays, teenagers are exposed to a variety types of television shows including the shows that promote violence actions as well. This can be proved by the plenty of streaming platform that we currently have nowadays such as Netflix and Hulu. This streaming platform portrays all contents including violence actions, the use of bad language and also sexual behaviours. In this part, the parents should play their role by monitoring their children. It is good for them to set up the parental control on all of the streaming platform. It is also best if they also limiting the use of gadget among their children. In addition, underage children also need to be prevented from watching the shows with rate of 16+ or 18+. In conclusion, streaming platforms also influencing the teenagers to commit juvenile crimes.

Last but certainly not least, I also think that the freedom of internet usage is one of the factors contributing to this issue. For instance, the teenager can be accidently open inappropriate websites that promotes juvenile crimes. As we all already know, the young generations are passionate in trying new things without fearing the bad consequences. This includes the misuse of drugs or become alcoholic at the young age. For severe case, they tend to harm their own family members just to get an amount of money to buy those things that for sure will cost them a bomb. According to the Kuala Lumpur Police Department, those kinds of issues is become more worrying and increase every year. This issues also becoming one of the biggest issues reported in Malaysia.

In conclusion, juvenile crimes in people not only influenced by the media but there are many other factors that also influencing them such as their environment condition but still I personally think media is the major cause of juvenile crimes. However, media also has its benefits if we use it in correct way. For instance, we could get information in just only by a single click! So in order to control the influence from the media, every people need to play their role in order to solve this problem. Remember the choice is ours so we are the one who choose who we want to be either the good ones or the bad ones. Who would have thought that one day juvenile crimes in Malaysia will become zero!