Should media report details of crime to the public or not?

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pinxinge

There are three reasons why I disagree media shouldn't report details of crimes.

First of all, the public need to know the truth, not just sth that blurs the fact. The details of crime help people get to know the truth of whole process.

Next, the details of crimes will help teach people learn how to prevent themselves from being hurt by the criminals. They may learn what they should do and what they should not under some dangerous circumstances.

Last but not least, knowing the details of crime will help people fight with the criminals. What's more, people may be well prepared for the upcoming dangerous, they will be highly alert and sensitive, and proactively prevent the crimes from happening.

pinxinge

I think the reasons provided by the positive side does not hold water at all. Let me give you the reasons one by one.

The first reason is that details of crimes can teach some persons who wanted to crime but did not know the method to crime find  ways to do evil things.

If the details of crime is a text book of prime, it is the public who will get more benefit from it. In fact, it the criminals want to get some method, they have lots of ways to get it. For example, one can easily buy a novel that detailed the process of a criminal offense. Most of them does not care much about the news at all. But for the public, the media is the most common way for them to get those information.

The second reason is that details can evoke victims' painful memories about the crimes and deprive of their privacy and dignity.
That's not true. Although I'm not a psychologist, I clearly know that the victims definitely need to face what happened to them directly. Avoid talking, hearing the fact of the crime all the time will not help them get rid of the shadow of the hurt.
[quote]The third reason is that details of crime might make the criminals who wanted to have fun from the crimes feel happy and encourage them commit crimes again.

That reason is funny. It looks like the positive side has attibuted the reason of crime is the criminals what to get fun. I would say this opinion is quite harmful because it neglects the social reason of crime. Criminals are not born as criminals, they are ordinary people, they have their own dream, they are just like any of us. If we want to prevent crimes from happening, what we need do is not hiding the truth, we need probe the real social reason.

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