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.
Highlights
In today’s society—it has been affirmed authoritatively—security is only a social pretense and, as a consequence, the overcoming of risks is merely symbolic1
The doctrine should dismount the “ivory tower”. It should abandon the most “aristocratic” attitude that keeps in part, detached, barely interested in the most “popular” implications of criminal politics, undertaking instead an active role of this sort of crime-political Bildung through the media70
The possibility to firmly carry out this leading role in the collective process of “contact with the criminal law culture”, is tied to a more unitary force of the doctrine, at least about the cardinal questions, that is, the principles of a legitimate criminal law
Summary
In today’s society—it has been affirmed authoritatively—security is only a social pretense and, as a consequence, the overcoming of risks is merely symbolic. Caterini this direction in an increasingly crucial way, especially through the Internet today, which is able to progressively influence the perception of such phenomenon2 These considerations are valid for the risks related to the criminal happenings and the associated pretension of security. The mass media and internet, in which the emotionality arrives to the parameter of choices, can supply extraordinary instruments of persuasion through the fear, more and more central in the politic world, to such an extent that phenomenon-producing social fear, emphasized, frequently conditions the legislative initiatives of [symbolic] contrast of the same phenomenon, intended to attract the approval of voters. If irrational social instances of criminal repression are created in the media, politics tend to prepare criminal answers that are usually symbolic, aimed at social reassurance and to gain approval, but ineffective, useless, unsuitable and oriented towards the affiliated
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