TITLE:
Criminal Risk, Media Representation and Role of the Criminal Law Culture
AUTHORS:
Mario Caterini
KEYWORDS:
Criminal Risk, Media Representation, Criminal Politics, Principle of Legality, Liquid Democracy, Role Criminal Law Culture
JOURNAL NAME:
Beijing Law Review,
Vol.6 No.1,
March
11,
2015
ABSTRACT: First of all, the essay
is about the media’s redundant emphasis on risks and the elitist specious creation
of collective worries, in particular with relation to the criminal phenomenon, presenting
the results of criminological researches that validate the empirical demonstration
of the media representation’s artificiality of criminal risk. The second part of
the essay is dedicated to the influence of the media representation on the legislative
choices of criminal politics, in particular in the actual contexts of the so-called
“liquid democracy” developed around the new media, focusing the attention on the
risks that it might involve with reference to the violation of some fundamental
principles in the democratic modern systems. The conclusion is dedicated to the
criminal law culture in a possible process of criminal-political paideia adapted to democratic and mass media
postmodern needs, trying to track the ontological content of the minimum levels
of knowledge of the citizens, such as the internalization of those fundamental values
that constitute the ethos of the contemporary civil society.