Is media responsible for growing crimes in the world ?

Throughout the human history we could witness the crimes happening in the world to a lesser or greater degree. This implies that the media is not the main cause of concern as even in the absence of the media there are reported instances of crimes. What then, the question arises, does the media not have any role in the growing crimes in the world?

We have to divide the crimes into different groups in order to answer this question. Take for example, the ‘rape’ cases alone for discussion. Even in the historic and the pre-historic (mythological ?) days too there are reported instances of ‘rapes’ on the globe and the media as we know them today, the TVs, Internet, magazines, pornography etc., are the recent inventions and in their absence too there were ‘rapes’ on the globe.

On the other hand it is interesting to note that, all the people watching the ‘porn’ are not committing ‘rapes’. But, no doubt although all who are watching the ‘porn’ might not ‘rape’ – all or most of them are taking different routes to control the ‘sexual urges’ stimulated or provoked by the ‘porn watching’ and the like. These different means could be – extra marital affairs, prostitution, masturbation, homosexuality, and the like.

Moreover it has been reported that the criminals responsible for the 'rapes' indeed have had watched the 'porn' movies just before the assault in majority of the cases.

So, this implies that – undoubtedly the ‘media’ is forcing the ‘people’ to commit some kind of crime or unhealthy deed. That means it [media] is acting as ‘catalyst’ in the growing rapes in the world.

In the absence of ‘pornography’ – if there are 5 rapes in the world, due to the media and pornography – the rape cases will increase to 10 or 15 or 20. This means that the media undoubtedly has a hand in the growing rape cases on the globe.

Not only to the ‘rape’ cases, but this logic applies to all the kinds of ‘crimes’ in the world. The media is ‘increasing’ rate of the crimes or in other words the ‘media’ has a [in]direct hand in the growing ‘crimes’ in the world.

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# Bhargava Kotur