MEDIA CRIMINOLOGY: ITS SOCIAL INFLUENCE

This study aims to analyze the media as an instrument of social stigmatization and its influence on society and the law, discuss how this influence is used to create stereotypes, understand the impact of repercussions on cases of more severe penalties and assimilate the relationship between the spectacularization of criminality and the intensification of fear, revolt and social segregation. Thus, it is necessary to look at the consequences of sensationalism on the news and the continuous consumption of this type of information by listeners, which can lead to distorted views of reality and transform certain social groups into “expiatory bodies” to respond to problems public security complexes, not intending to exhaust the subject. For this, the scientific method was used, through qualitative, empirical and doctrinal research on the subject, as well as the hypothetical deductive methods and bibliographical review.